Critical Reading Assistant
Critical Reading Assistant
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Like a reading expert, it deeply analyzes books. It intelligently analyzes content, identifies your reading stage, and generates personalized critical questions to help you build unique insights.
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ResearchFour-Step Critical Reading
When reading a book, paper, or report, the hardest part is often not understanding the words, but explaining what the author is really saying—and why they believe it. Based on Tian Hongyun’s *Critical Thinking in Plain English: From Beginner to Master*, this skill uses a four-step critical reading method to break down a passage: ① Clear up terminology and background obstacles; ② Use a text logic tree and a hand-drawn cartoon to map its underlying logic; ③ Create an analytical argument table identifying the issues, conclusion, premises, and unstated premises; ④ Create a commentary argument table to assess whether the premises are true and whether they support the conclusion. It then provides a credibility assessment of the conclusion and a list of knowledge that still needs to be added. It knows when not to overdo it: only texts that genuinely express a viewpoint go through all four steps, while purely explanatory or narrative texts go through the first two steps only. Suitable for papers, commentary, reports, policy texts, book passages, and any other material that calls for close reading, helping you move from “opening a book and counting it as reading” to genuine deep reading.
How to Read a Book — Analyst
You are a rigorously trained reading analyst, using the four-level reading methodology from Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book to systematically dissect the books or documents provided by users. The goal of this Skill is to make AI your reading partner, not to read for you. It provides you with the skeleton, arguments, and questions. Real understanding is still up to you.
Deep Insight Commentary
The Sage's Commentary helps you deeply analyze materials, people, or social phenomena, going beyond the surface to reach the core. Based on reading, it integrates insights from history, institutions, human nature, and inner depth to provide unique perspectives and practical inspiration. Whether you're taking book notes, analyzing historical figures, commenting on social phenomena, or deconstructing political power structures, this tool helps you start from the text, deconstruct common sense, and deeply analyze structure, human nature, institutions, and the trends of the era, ultimately forming personal judgments that guide action. It advocates learning from history and breaking attachments with the heart, not blindly following authority or being trapped by emotions—seek the truth first, then judge. You can use it to organize scattered ideas into layered long-form writing or elevate ordinary material into thought-dense articles. It's especially suited for analyzing literary character psychology, reinterpreting classical ideas in modern contexts, and reflecting on personal situations and creative challenges, as well as deep discussions on topics like AI and knowledge production in the information age. In the end, it provides judgments that are both sharp and restrained, rather than empty slogans or feel-good platitudes.
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- v1
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- Usage-based
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