Be The Magnifying Glass Towards Your Text

Political texts as like any other texts are important to read carefully to understand and analyze. These are mainly objective where the authors try not to be biased and to bring up the positive and negative effects of a topic. These types of texts are mostly based on current and controversial issues. Mary Arends-Kuenning and Sajeda Amin, in their text “Women’s Capabilities and the Right to Education in Bangladesh” have managed to show an epitome of political writings. The main eye catcher of any writing is the title. Good and effective titles draw the attention of the readers to one’s writing and help the readers to get a hint of the content of their argument. As a reader, one should focus on the title. By looking simply to the title of the text “Women’s Capabilities and the Right to Education in Bangladesh” one can easily understand what it is about. To make it clearer, the author divided it to some sections with individual titles. To read this specific text, one should read the main title and all the sub-titles at first which will give the overview of the text. The finest work of the authors is that they have put an abstract at the beginning of the text. It is great opportunity for you to go through the most important information in the text. Then, you should read the introduction and the conclusion which will provide you with authors’ purpose of writing this text and it will help you to connect more with their argument. Now, just skim through it for once and during skimming look for the topic sentences of each paragraph. When you finished reading it for the first time then read it again and this time start annotating it. Mark the information and evidences they use in their support and also for the other side.
Finally, analyze each point and come up with your idea to support or oppose their claim. Think about the references while analyzing, verify those references are reliable or not. If you support the claim, then think about the solutions that are mentioned by the author. This entire process is useful to read a political text and this will involve the reader in the text. Follow the above methods to read the political text properly.
Work Cited
Arends-Kuenning, Mary and Amin, Sanjeda, “Women’s capability and right to education in Bangladesh .” International Journal of Politics and Society, Vol. 15, No.1, September 2001. Print.