Issues facing young people..

• Racism
• Budgeting
• Negative stereotyping
• Pressures of materialism
• Academic problems
• Addictive gaming

Annotation notes for pages 17-32:

• To determine an arguments rhetorical context, find and answer The Who, To Whom, Where, When and Why
• When you read critically, your purpose goes beyond the written text
• Critical reading means interacting with the text
• highlighting and or underlining is not enough, you need to write in the margins
• Unfamiliar contexts, contrasting voices and views, allusions, specialized vocabulary are all common features that make reading difficult
• Allusions are brief references to things outside the text, anything in the culture that the author assumes he or she shares knowledge of with readers
• a common difficulty with scientific writing is that it can sound disembodied and abstract
• Passive voice is another common. form of the missing-person problem
• If you learn to recognize passive voice, you can often mentally convert the troublesome passage into active voice
• Paraphrase is often longer than the original because it loosens up what is dense
• In paraphrasing, try to make both the language and the syntax simpler
• Two critical skills, subdividing the text and considering contexts, will help breakdown complex texts.
• Guidelines for paraphrasing: Use your own words, try for “who-does-what”, check around the sentence to make sure you know the understanding of texts
• we use context to help pick out the reasoning
• Annotation: making a note
• Ways to annotate: paraphrase the claim and reasons next to where you find them stuffed, note contradictions, note any opposing views, ask what the author assumes, etc