Chapter 1: Critical Thinking Through Reading, Viewing, and Writing

   This chapter teaches you how you can use critical thinking through reading, viewing and writing.
First it teaches you a reading strategy: SQ3R: Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review.  In the first step which is Survey, this means before you read a story you should first go over and read the study guide. Then go back and read the introductory and conclusion of each page. The benefit to this serves three important purposes:(1) gives you the big picture, (2) stabilizes and directs your thoughts and (3) gets you over the starting hump. The next step is question, after you survey you should begin to ask yourself questions that you can answer while you read. Asking questions will keep you constantly thinking about what will be coming up next. Now you read, this will give you the answers to your questions and give you the big picture. Now after you finish reading a page you recite it outloud, answering your questions. Then you last but not least review, double check the questions you asked, are there answers? Those are the five steps to the SQ3R I thought they were very helpful, it will deffinitely make it easier for me next time I have to read and write.