<研究ノート>Developing Critical Reading Skill for Academic Writing

Abstract

Development of academic writing skill requires students to monitor their composition. This monitoring skill includes (1) to check whether there is a difference between what is implied in a statement and what a reader may carelessly infer from it and (2) to check whether the information stated in their composition is accurate. According to Paul and Elder, this is defined as critical reading. Monitoring a composition can be done by validating an assumption and by checking whether a counterevidence can be shown. The former is referred to as deductive inference while the latter as inductive inference. The tools to check these inferences are (1) materials with key questions enabling students to monitor and (2) debate format. Affirmative and negative points and refutation need to be studied for debate format.