What is critical reading? Notes for my first year undergraduate students reading Marx and Du Bois. -->

1) Critical reading involves joining generations of interpreters and partaking in traditions of reading while developing your own interpretation of texts.

2) Critical reading is deconstructing to its constitutive elements an argument, and developing the capacity to put it back together to be able to understand what the text does, and how it does it.

3) Critical reading involves trust in your own judgement. If a text does not make sense, if something is missing, you may be right. Critical reading includes reading for absences, for what is not said.

@ebrudemirsussex and @SundhyaPahuja, you got me thinking.