Unit 1: An Introduction

Critical literacy actually describes a particular approach to reading and writing. It approaches either the reader or writer to understand any texts should not be accepted at face value or treated as having special authority or mystique. Instead, readers should remain ‘critical’ or be aware of the purpose which texts serve and messages they convey. Articles can be in form of academic, on the newspaper, magazine or on the internet.

Unit 1 is an interesting unit because it introduces to students the ability to take a critical approach to one’s own and other people’s writing. An article is produce by the producer in which contains many purposes. For example to inform, to educate, to warn and to explain to the readers. The readers of the article are the consumers who bought or receive the article.

In this unit, lots of information has been given to the students in order to show the criteria that are needed in a good article. Besides that, it shows the beginners of how to write a good article in order to attract the intended readers.
Critical literacy is what a college education is all about. In college, the important is on developing “higher-order thinking”, the active, intelligent evaluation of ideas and information. The main goal is to teach students of how to think, which is how to become independent, self-directed thinkers and learners.