Critical Literacy

<p><em>Critical Literacy: Integrating Critical Thinking Reading and Writing</em> is designed to help students develop the critical thinking reading and writing skills that will support their academic and professional careers. The text emphasizes the interdependency of critical thinking reading and writing and introduces readers to multi-modal writing. <br /><br />The text begins by introducing students to the concept of critical literacy the idea of metacognition and the three key subsets of critical literacy: critical thinking reading and writing. Ensuing chapters discuss the components of an academic essay the usefulness of prewriting and discovery drafting and the important practices of revising editing and proofreading. <br /><br />Dedicated chapters introduce students to different types of writing including reflective analytical position informative and research. The text concludes with a handbook that covers common mistakes in grammar and mechanics as well as a collection of readings that challenges students to apply what they’ve learned encouraging them to critically think about read and write about the selections. <br /><br /><em>Critical Literacy</em> is an ideal textbook for foundational courses in reading and writing as well as freshman seminar or college success programs or courses.</p><p><strong>Susan Sommers Thurman</strong> is an adjunct faculty member at Henderson Community College where she teaches courses in developmental writing and integrated reading and writing. She is the coauthor of <em>Ticket to Write: Writing Paragraphs and Essays</em> and <em>Ticket to Write: Writing College Essays</em> and the author of <em>Expanding Horizons: Short Readings and Images from Unusual Topics</em>.</p><p><strong>William L. Gary Jr.</strong> is a professor of English and the director of the Writing Center at Henderson Community College where he teaches courses in composition literature creative writing and business writing. He is the coauthor of <em>Ticket to Write: Writing Paragraphs and Essays</em> and <em>Ticket to Write: Writing College Essays</em>. He earned his master’s degree in English from Florida State University.</p>