The following links will take you to some interesting and useful articles, essays and handouts regarding the teaching of reading in a liberal arts seminar
Introductions to Critical Reading and Strategies
for Readers
On the Status and Future of Reading
Introductions to Critical Reading and Strategies
for Readers
Handouts from Janet Ruddy,
King’s College
Finding the Topic and Main
Idea
Activity: Finding the Topic and Main Idea
Evaluation Criteria for
Summaries
Author’s Tone, Purpose and
Bias
How do Facts and Opinions
Differ?
Bibliography (Books in
Corgan Library)
A on-line chapter from Critical Thinking: A Student’s Introduction, 4th ed., by Gregory Bassham, William Irwin, Henry Nardone, and James Wallace (2010)
Term Paper Alternatives: Ideas for
Information-Based Research
King’s College Library
Reading and Learning Strategies:
Recommendations for the 21st Century
Michele L.
Simpson, Norman A. Stahl, and Michelle Anderson Francis
Journal of Developmental Education (2004)
Reading Your Textbooks Effectively and
Efficiently
Academic Skills Center at
Dartmouth
Academic Skills Center at
Dartmouth
Strategies for Teaching Critical Reading
William Peirce ( Prince
George’s Community College)
Staying
Afloat: Some Scattered Suggestions on Reading in College
Timothy Burke (Swarthmore)
Daniel Kurland
AAC&U
University of Washington
CIDR Teaching and Learning
Bulletin (2001)
Kathleen King (Idaho State
University)
Critical Thinking and the Art of Close
Reading, Part I
Richard Paul and Linda
Elder
The Foundation for Critical
Thinking
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
David Foster Wallace
A Word in Defense of the Artes
Liberalis
Joel Shuman
Liberal Arts and Liberal Education
Christopher Flannery
John Ashbrook Center for Public Affaris, Ashland University (1998)
What’s So Good About a
College Education
Andrew P. Mills
Links to Essays on the Liberal Arts
Thomas R. McCambridge
(California Lutheran University)
On the Uses of a Liberal
Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students
Mark Edmundson
Harper’s Magazine
(1997)
On the Uses of a Liberal Education: As a Weapon in the Hands of the Restless Poor
Earl Shorris
Harper’s Magazine
(1997)
In the Basement of the Ivory Tower
Professor X
The Atlantic (2008)
In Tough Times, Humanities Must Justify
Their Worth
Patricia Cohen
New York Times
(2009)
David Brooks
New York Times
(2010)
The Radicalism of the Liberal Arts
Tradition
Jackson Lears
Academe
(2003)
Andrew Abbot (University of
Chicago)
Plato
New York Times (2010)
Mind Reading: A Neuroscientist Explains
the Phenomenon of Literacy and Its Effects on the Brain
Alison Gopnik
Review of
Reading in the Brain: The Science and
Evolution of a Human Invention
New York Times Book Review
(2010)
Is Technology Producing a Decline in
Critical Thinking and Analysis
Stuart Wolpert
UCLA News
(2009)
Ezra Klein
The Columbia Journalism
Review (2008)
Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading
Motoko Rich
New York Times (2008)
Using Video Games as Bait to Hook Readers
Motoko Rich
New York Times
(2008)
Christine Rosen
The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology and Society (2008)
To Read or Not to Read:
Executive Summary
To Read or Not to Read:
Webcast
National Endowment for the
Arts (2007)
Caleb Crain
The New Yorker (2007)
The Eye Generation Prefers Not to Read All About It
Linton Weeks
Washingtonpost.com (2007)
My Reader, My Double: Questions for
Pierre Bayard
Interview with Pierre
Bayard, author of
How to Talk About Books You Haven’t
Read
Deborah Solomon
New York Times
(2007)
The Ability To Read a College Textbook is Declining
Barbara Pytel
Suite101.com (2006)
Interview with Camille Paglia
Kerry Lauerman
Salon.com (2005)
Steven Johnson
New York Times
(2005)
Reading at Risk: Executive Summary
National Endowment for the
Arts (2004)