Reading 3

6th Class : 5th of April 2015

Muhammad Rizal Khaef
muhrizalkhaefi@gmail.com

Universitas Terbuka
Korea Selatan

Course Introduction
Text book : Reading 3, Mardiani & Darminah, Universitas Terbuka 2011
Tutorial module consists of 9 parts but will be cover in 8 classes.
Class 1 : Scanning
Class 2 : Skimming, Main and Supporting Ideas (Module 2 &3)
Class 3 : Inference
Class 4 : Understanding Complicated Sentences 1
Class 5 : Understanding Complicated Sentences 1
Class 6 : Assessing The Text
Class 7 : Linguistic Response To The Text
Class 8 : Summarizing
Tutorial method: In class and online broadcast (USTREAM & SKYPE)
Grading Components
Task 1 (March 3, March 17), Task 2 (March 17, April 31) , Task 3 (March 31, April 7)
Participation
Final Exam
Course material can be found at Google Plus and Facebook Group

MODUL 7 :
Assessing Text (Critical Reading Strategy)
Distinguishing facts and opinions
Identify facts provided in texts
Identify signal words that describing facts
Identify signal words that describing opinions
Differentiate facts from opinions
Finding/Understanding writers intention
Determine writers purpose
Text purpose can be carried with various motivation/purpose
Informative/descriptive text
providing information
Narration text
telling, sharing
Persuasive text
convincing
Argumentation text Critizising
3

Facts & Opinions

Fact : Truth can be proven universally

Signal words : statistics, names, dates, experimental result

Who is the current President of Indonesia?
Name of months
When Indonesian celebrates their independence day?
How many hours we have in a day?

Opinions

: Involve feelings and element of

subjectivity
Signal words : could, might, will, may, perhaps, maybe, possibly,
probably
SBYs first son could be Indonesias next president.
That movie would probably become huge hits in the box office.
4

Understanding Writers Intention

Adalah strategi membaca secara kritis
Berpikir kritis artinya,
Dapat memberikan alasan
Dapat memberikan kesimpulan
Dapat memberikan pendapat
Tujuan penulisan (oleh penulis)
Memberikan informasi tentang suatu subjek
Menjelaskan suatu kejadian
Berbagi pengalaman
Meyakinkan pembaca tentang suatu ide atau pandangan
Meyakinkan pembaca tentang suatu barang atau penemuan
Sekedar menghibur
5

Text : Fighting Ovarian Cancer

Writers intention
Providing information
Sharing knowledge or information
formatif text
Signal words : Fighting, Research data
Writers position
Positive, Optimistic
Signal words : Show significant improvement, Usage of
comparative clause higher
Question: Can you list facts and opinions from the

article?