Through the looking glass: Reflections of a writing scholar

Abstract

The Acquired Knowledge series provides veteran academics, like myself, a soapbox from which to brandish their accomplishments, failures, and lessons they presumably learned. It can be foolish and maybe a tad dangerous to offer an old dog a platform from which to bark. But here we are. I will try my best not to be dangerous. I make no promises about folly and banality.Start at the BeginningIn the 1951 movie, Alice in Wonderland, the March Hare and the Mad Hatter give advice about how to tell a story – simply put: “Start at the beginning.” So here we go. (Hopefully the folly meter is not ticking upward yet.)

Cognitive Strategies and Textual Genres in the Teaching and Evaluation of Advanced Reading Comprehension (ARC)

“…For example, the quality of the written composition (written communicative competence) are designed from the planning processes that involve the generation of information and ideas, or the selection of ideas and review of the written message, so that reading comprehension becomes essential. (García and García-Martín, 2021a,b;Graham, 2021;López et al, 2021;Robledo-Ramón and García-Gutiérrez, 2021). The same happens with citizen competence, where critical thinking represents 70% of the assessment of competence, which implies the resolution of citizen problems, which require a high dose of advanced reading comprehension, as in the case of the development of lateral reading strategies and contrast of facts in the face of hoaxes and fakes (Brodsky et al, 2021;Cabrera et al, 2021).…”