Reading Journal
| Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page | Assessing Source Credibility for Crafting a Well-Informed Argument
By: Kate Warrington, Natasha Kovalyova, and Cindy King |
| Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words | In this article they go over ways to use critical thinking to the maximum capacity and how to use critical reading strategies to help with future or past research papers/essays. They also go over ethos, pathos, and logos and how to analyze and find those in writings and how to use those in your writing. This article really just went over how to approach every assignment and how each assignment or essay is different and how you should approach each essay or reading with critical thinking and strategies. |
| Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. | A new concept I learned is how sometimes ways that you word things in an essay can often come off as biased and that is the last thing you want to sound like in an essay, especially an informational research essay. |
| How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research? | This article connects to the article we read last semester about ethos, logos, and pathos. I remember that article gave a lot of examples on how to incorporate those three strategies into papers. In this article it gave ways to use those ideas but in an unbiased way and how to use them in all sorts of different essays. |
| Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. | I would say my one question is, is it ever okay to sound biased in an essay. I know that in research assignments you should never sound biased but in personal essays, is it okay to state your personal opinion on a matter in a respectful way? |