Use these resources to help develop your critical reading & note making skills, to help develop your own arguments and judgements. When reading to make best use of your time you should read actively ...

In the first section of the National 5 Critical Reading assessment, you will be asked to comment on examples of language, such as word choice and imagery. Revise how to identify and analyse some ...

Theme is not a technique as such, but rather the central idea or ideas explored and developed in the text. Most texts will explore more than one theme, although they might not all be as ...

Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot’s (2008) The Tiger That Isn’t: Seeing Through a World of Numbers provides an indication of ‘critical’ element of the course content.