Reviews for How to Read Texts: A Student Guide to Critical Approaches and Skills

The average rating for How to Read Texts: A Student Guide to Critical Approaches and Skills based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-09-27 00:00:00 E.h. Koch I mean... Useful, I suppose, but it's just really dry - standard textbook Read for my Language-Writing-Reading class

Review # 2 was written on 2014-05-27 00:00:00 Joseph Ragano A considered look into how students read texts on the eve of college/university level courses. I plan on using this in my AP Literature class next year as a primer into the course and to help develop student comprehension by making the act of read more explicit as a conscious act. Neil McCaw's 2nd edition divides into seven chapters: What type of reader are you right now?; Reading creatively; Reading texts closely, Reading biography, authors and readers; Reading genre and literary/cultural history; Reading social and political history; Reading philosophically; or, critical theory. In each chapter, McCaw provides concrete mini-lessons while also introducing semiotics and gradually building up to critical theory