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the first day of college came closer and I was reminded of its existence. Picking up the book and

When people read they often just skim through, “Although there are virtues to skimming, the vast majority of writing tasks you will encounter in college and in the workplace require your conversancy with material you have read.” (David Rosenwasser, of Home from Nowhere:Remaking Our Everyday World for the Twenty-first Century, as Rosenwasser defines, become conversant 107).

By acknowledging the other viewpoint, the author can still present her argument and not offend the reader so much that they would quickly side against her. Using these techniques, the author effectively attracts the readers’ attention and explains the main point of the rest of the article.

The most important thing to consider is whether readers are making sense of what they are reading.

After reading " CLUES to Critical Thinking" in chapter 5, I disagree with the Supreme Court's decision to allow Law enforcements to strip search an arrested individual who had only committed a minor offense. The Fourth Amendment clearly states that, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. Unreasonable can be defined as not guided by or based on good sense, which in this case, strip searching an individual for a minor offense can be seen as unreasonable. The only time a cop should be able to strip search you is when the officer has a reasonable suspicion that you are either carrying contraband or an illegal weapon, that is what strip searches are for. It is not

After analyzing the evidence presented from both perspectives, it is clear to see that both sides have reasonable points that must be considered when

When they lose their comprehension while they read, they should stop it and back up their understanding and continue read from where they lose their pace.

evaluating the text by means of a rhetorical analysis, we as readers can fully appreciate the

In chapter five we learn about how several authors when writing on a topic chooses sides and how they argue their position against others. The author writes for a purpose as well as an audience. The purpose of the author choosing sides is to allow readers to alter the way they view the issue; maybe in a better or worse way or even the same. Sometimes the reading also helps those who lack knowledge on the issue settle on a side, in addition, those who have yet to decide on a side. In order for the author to capture a reader's attention, they need to establish the issue from the beginning in the title and the first few paragraphs or sentences of the paper. Using questions, statistics, quotes, or anything that may capture the reader's attention

This article serves as clear and organize text with information on diverse views and perceptive

Analysis- the breaking down of an article or essay to more easily understand it. Analyzing an article or essay with just a few simple steps is by far the best way to fully understand the meaning of the article or essay and where it came from. Analyzation is one of the three components of critical thinking and the steps of analyzing an article/essay include looking at the thesis, finding the author 's purpose and the author 's methods, and evaluating the author 's persona. While analyzing an article, a few questions you may ask yourself are “Is the author making a solid point?”, “Why is the author writing this article/essay?”, “Is the author trustworthy?”, and so on. Analyzation could help build upon your own opinion or form objection to your opinion; although, an article/essay may need to be read more than once to get everything out of it. A point may be missed here and there if it is only read once or it may even be understood better when read more than once. Article and essay analyzation is truly the only way to get the most important information out of or from an article or essay.

Dixie: Amanda, I agree with you that in making personal decisions that I use critical thinking most of the time. It take me time to decide what I want and how the outcome will be. I find that if I don’t use critical thinking the outcome could be way different. Does it take you a long time to make a decision?

A critical thinker is one who takes information in and analyzes it, interprets it and uses it to make logical decisions about how to act and what to believe. Robert Ennis describes critical thinking

What is important in a text is not its meaning, what it is trying to say, but what

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