How to Read: Intellectual Standards and Literary Terms
Overview
Clear directions on how to analytically read.
How to Read
When we read, we analyze categories of meaning. We can do this using the Intellectual Standards identified below. Evaluating our reading using each standard as a category is done by referring to literary terms that apply to our reading. Using a mixture of the terms of the standards and the literary terms identified below is how I expect you to analyze the works we will be looking at in this class. For example, you might say, "The accuracy of the story is questionable, mostly due to the angry tone and exaggerated word choices made by the author. The dark and bleak imagery of the coal mines would have been sufficient for convincing me of the inhospitable environment of the workers. As it is, the portrayal lacks a balance of fairness and is not to be trusted as it is too one-sided and lacks depth and breadth."
Read the following article and describe it using the intellectual standards and literary terms above.
“University of Florida College of Medicine pushes ‘destructive’ woke agenda on students, report says,” Fox News, November 22, 2022. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/university-florida-college-medicine-destructive-woke-agenda-students-report.
Micki Archuleta, Modesto Junior College
Katherine Muto-Nelson, Arizona State University
Erin Dark-Herold, Modesto Junior College