Chapter 4 of the Bedford Resaercher textbook discusses and defines what Reading Cirtically is. As opposed to "evaluating critically", reading critically concerns the source material and what it means, not determining if the source is reliable to cite. The chapter continues by providing steps on the topic, poviding examples from other students, and a quick activity that refines the research question in the research log.
The chapter then discusses reading with an attitude, keeping your research question and position statement related to the reading, ways of marking sources and taking notes, kinds of evidence, variations of analysis, and combo methods between sources.
In summary, the chapter is a crash course in reading papers from blogs to professors, analyzing and description paragraphs to utilize them as points and reasons in your research paper. It describes the various ways that evidence can be provided, where reasons may lie, when to skim and when to comb, how to reread efficiently, and at what point you should scrap the source for it's true nature and move onto the next.
All of this information can be utilized in my research paper by using it in practice when analyzing the sources that I've pre-scanned for relevance and accuracy to my research question and position.
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