SITE INDEXES Writing- with Links to Discussion of Reading Critical Reading: The Steps The Nature Of The Text: What Are You Reading? The Working Environment: Where Will You Read? The Goal or Assignment: How Will You Read? Three Formats For Discussion: A Quick Reminder Steps in Critical Reading Principles of Critical Reading and Writing Examples: Portraying Charles Drew LEARNING TO READ AND WRITE Learning to Read and Write Sentence Structure Example: James Baldwin The Need to Improve Your Reading The Need to Improve Your Writing A Linguistic Approach To Reading and Writing The Spoken Word: The Base for Reading and Writing Unconscious and Unwritten Rules Non-Verbal and Social Aspects Of Language The Three Authors and their Implications for Reading CRITICAL READING AND CRITICAL THINKING What Is Critical Reading? Critical Reading, at its Core, Plain and Simple What Is Critical Thinking? Critical Reading v. Critical Thinking Word Processors, E-Mail, the Web, and Voice Recognition Software INFERENCE: READING IDEAS AS WELL AS WORDS Inference: Reading and Writing Ideas as Well as Words Words Inference: Analysis Inference: The Process Inference: Inference Equations Inference: Denotation Inference: Association and Reference Inference: Figurative Language CHOICES: THE INGREDIENTS OF TEXTS Choices: The Ingredients of Texts Choices: The Choice of Content Choice of Content: An Example--Time Capsule Recognizing What Examples Are Examples Of Controlling Patterns of Content Patterns of Content: An Example-- Police Magazine Choices: The Choice of Language Choices: The Choice of Structure THREE WAYS TO READ AND DISCUSS TEXTS: READING WHAT A TEXT SAYS, DOES, AND MEANS Three Ways to Read and Discuss Texts Restatement: Reading What A Text Says Description: Describing What A Text Does Descriptive Formats: Ways to Describe a Discussion A Variety of Descriptive Formats Interpretation: Analyzing What A Text Means A GRAMMAR FOR READING AND WRITING A Grammar for Reading and Writing Complete Reference: The Noun Phrase Sentence and Predicate Modifiers Simple Sentences: Subject and Predicate Sentence Modifiers Predicate Modifiers Inserts The Comma: A Review FICTION Fiction v. Nonfiction Fiction Novels / Stories Poetry Drama MISCELLANEOUS The Origins of this Approach Published Text: I Know What It Says...What Does It Mean? The Author Text for Discussion: Needle Exchange Program and the Law--Time for a Change Texts for Discussion: Three newspaper accounts of the death of Malcolm X