Critical Reading

Summary:
     Thinking and reading critically are both important in helping to improve one's own writing. However, criticizing does not imply that one has to be mean or ruthless (which a lot of people think it does because of its bad connotation), instead it means applying one's judgement and analyzing the piece. In analyzing writing, not only is it necessary to identify a meaning and/or thesis behind the author's words, it is also required to infer the reasons behind certain messages and to link several messages within the writing to form a purpose for everything that the author chose to do. After analyzing and reading critically, one will be able to identify the pieces of writing most unified and most coherent. With this important experience and knowledge, one will be able to improve one's own ability to write uniformly with depth and purpose.