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Karen GaffneyEnglish Composition ICritical Reading Step 1: Pre-Reading (activating your prior knowledge)Your name: ________________________________________Author’s name: _______________________________________________Essay title: ___________________________________________________________List a few words the title of the essay makes you think of:Read the short paragraph at the bottom of the first page of the essay, which is written by the editor to describe who the author is and where the text was originally published. Based only on that paragraph:What can you say about who the author is and the author’s profession? (Professor? Journalist? etc)What magazine, journal, or newspaper originally published this essay? What type of source do you think this is? (Book? Newspaper? Magazine? etc)In a few sentences, explain what you already know about the subject of this essay. Think about personal experience, your observations, something you read or studied in another class, a film or TV show you saw, etc. ................
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