Everyday Reading 2

Critical Reading 13rd meeting

Tuty Handayani, M.A.
 Everyday reading

News Credit Package

articles cards labels

Graphic
recipes blogs
material
Reading and Comparing Package
Labels
O Consumers who want to eat a healthy diet or
who have food restrictions consult the
nutrition facts on food packages to determine
their contents.
O Others are concerned about artificial additives,
color agents, and sweeteners in food, and so
they read the side panels of food packages to
determine if any are included
Reading and Comparing Package
Labels
O We have BPOM (FDA in US) that regulates food
and drug processors
O By law, the FDA requires food producers to list
ingredients on their packages in an identical format.
O The ingredients must be listed in order of quantity.
O Therefore, the first ingredient listed is the main
ingredient, the second ingredient listed is the
next ingredient by quantity, and so on.
For the past 20 years or so, food producers have
also been required to list nutrition facts like
calories and grams and percentages of sodium,
fat, and sugar as part of the so-called “daily
value,” along with a brief summary of two
representative dietary requirements.
 Reading Recipes
O People often say that anyone can cook as long
as he or she can follow a recipe. But is this
really true?
O What is the difference between ordinary
everyday reading and reading a recipe?
 Reading Recipes
O This is a reading text, not a cookbook, but if you are a
beginning cook, you need
to know three crucial things about how to read a
recipe:
first, you need to read it through completely
to be sure that you understand the steps involved.
Second, you need to read the list of ingredients
carefully to be sure that you have everything on hand.
Last, knowing the meaning of cooking terms is also
critical
 Reading Graphic Material
Pie Charts, Bar Graphs, and Line Graphs
O Graphic material often accompanies magazine and
newspaper articles.
O Graphs present statistical information, especially
the results of surveys, in an easy-to-understand
format.
O There are three kinds of graphs—line graphs, pie
charts, and bar graphs.
O You can “read” a graph just as you can read other
material, but the reading process is somewhat
different.
 Pie Charts
The following chart accompanied an article called
“Young, Underemployed and Optimistic: Coming of Age,
Slowly, in a Tough Economy,” a PewResearchCenter
Publication (February 9, 2012).
 Bar Chart
O is used to present more complicated material, usually
statistics that span several years
O Consider this bar chart from The Wall Street Journal,
which accompanied an article titled “Survey Says:
Cellphones Annoy Pollsters.”
Line Chart

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