REVIEWER-GREATBOOKS-FINALS

Reading Styles and Techniques

These are the styles, systems, or practices in decoding symbols for better comprehension for communication and sharing of information and ideas.

Cognitive Process

The process of thinking and remembering.

Decoding

To recognize and interpret information.

Deriving

To take, receive, or obtain something from a specified source.

Language Acquisition

The process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language.

Skimming

Method of rapidly moving the eyes over text to get only the main ideas and general overview of the content.

Scanning

Finding specific information such as name, date, or fact without reading the entire article.

Phrase Reading

A grouping of words that go together to mean something; also known as ‘chunking.’

Non-Prose Reading

Graphs, Diagrams, Charts and Maps.

Deep Reading

An active process of thoughtful and deliberate reading to enhance comprehension and enjoyment of a text. Also called “slow reading”.

Critical Approaches

Are different perspectives we consider when examining a piece of literature. Deconstruction

Feminist Criticism

This tries to correct a predominantly male-dominated critical perspective with a feminist consciousness. This form of criticism places literature in a social context and employs various disciplines, such as history, psychology, sociology, and linguistics, to create a perspective that considers feminist issues.

Marxist Criticism

Is a strongly politically oriented criticism deriving from the theories of the social philosopher Karl Marx. Marxist critics insist that all language use is influenced by social class and economics.

New Criticism

Evolved out of the same root theoretical system as deconstructionism, called formalist criticism. This works with the elements of a text-only — irony, paradox, metaphor, symbol, plot, etc. by engaging in extremely close textual analysis.

New Historicism

Focuses on the literary text as part of a larger social and historical context and the modern reader’s interaction with that work.

Psychological Criticism

The basis of this approach is the idea of the existence of human consciousness — those impulses, desires, and feelings about which a person is unaware but which influence emotions or behavior.

Reader-Response Criticism

Removes the focus from the text and places it on the reader instead by attempting to describe what goes on in the reader’s mind while reading a text.

Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

Known as the Brothers Grimm.

Text Structures

• To make an argument

• To inform

• To tell a story

Description

It is pretty straightforward. Texts that use this structure describe something. With few exceptions, these texts also present plenty of details about what they're describing.

Sequence/Instruction/Process

When you read or write a text with this structure, order is the key. Texts that use this format don't present any event or instruction out of order, as doing so would make its directions more difficult to follow.

Cause/Effect

This structure can become complex when an effect has multiple causes (or vice versa).

Compare/contrast

This text structure involves a comparison between multiple things, revealing how they are similar and different.

Problem/Solution

This text structure involves two parts:

• The author identifies a problem

• The author details a solution to this problem