ABSTRACT
The process skills address how to critique educational texts. Reading texts is the heart of the humanities, and education texts are no different from texts found in the fields of philosophy, literary studies, and Western civilization. There are at least three different kinds of texts: word, image, and social, each of those representing through its specific medium. Word texts are what most people understand texts to be books, newspapers, and poems anything where words are doing the representation. Image texts refer to anything that represents through images drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, architecture. Social texts refer to representations found in the live engagement of humans in social interaction with each other ordinary daily life, special ceremonies, and extraordinary events. While argument analysis identifies the elements of an argument that make it strong or weak, rhetorical analysis breaks down the elements found in a text that make it more or less persuasive.
