Evaluation Of Sources And Argumrnts On Developing Critical Thinking Skills

Beliefs, attitudes and values are three little words that have and make a massive impact on who we are as individuals, who we are as people, and even how the world is viewed by ourselves and others. A belief is something that individuals or groups think, such as believing in a god. Where a Value would be the living life in the ways a religion expects, this value will be made from the belief that the person or group has in their God. The attitude towards this would be the feelings, beliefs and behaviour tendencies towards this, for example praying, reading the holy book,

The overall course of English 102 with Professor Lyn has impacted my writing and me as an individual. Not only did the course help me improve my writing, but it helped me think of the ideas and norms that we ascribe to in the world as more complex. This portfolio shows how some of the learning objectives of English 102 reflects my growth as a writer and thinker. The papers that are included in this portfolio demonstrate my mastery of the learning objectives of this course. There are first drafts to show where I began in my writing process and final drafts to demonstrate my understanding of what was wrong in my first submissions. My ability to edit and recognize errors in my paper shows my improvement of writing. The different types of writing and audiences the papers are intended for impacted my approach of writing these papers.

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 learning studying the technics from Unit 2 on improving critical thinking skills, I feel that I have devised a plan to help me through this process. The steps in the lesson that include using wasted time and asking specific questions, planning to handle one problem per day, and internalize intellectual standards and having clarity and understanding about devising a game plan has helped me put the changes into action. Keeping a journal and trying to practice intellectual strategies are all part of my plan to improve my thinking.

My journey through Writer’s Composition has been a rocky rollercoaster with ups and downs, but from these experiences I have grown as a writer overall. The essays I have written for this course demonstrate that I have developed critical thinking and have shown minor improvements in my communication skills. They also demonstrate that though I have made some progress in personal responsibility and general writing skills, I still have work to do. From Writer’s Composition Two, I have developed an understanding of persuasive writing, and I now am able to pick a topic or a claim and argue it in classic argument writing.

In today’s current school systems, the question of whether or not schools are correctly teaching students the right curriculum is coming up for debate. In the Article,"Teaching Critical Thinking by Marcia Clemmitt, she goes into extensive research of the U.S. Department of Education’s crisis of standardized testing. Most learning activities include standardized testing which lacks many students to express creative and critical thinking. Critical thinking is defined as the examination and evaluation of ideas, events and arguments in their contexts which introduces students to interrogate assumptions and identifying biases (Clemmitt)Pure critical thinking involves investigating a text more than just memorizing, but to apply theirself in other ways of techniques, meaning schools should stimulate more analytical methods of teaching. This would not only free students from a sheltered test culture,but will allow students to think in a deeper,more passionate way than before.

An essay is a great way to express your knowledge in a topic and also learn new skills involving reading and writing. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses when it comes to writing. To turn those weaknesses into strengths, I have practiced my writing and took the advice given by my peers and professor. Throughout this course, I have overcome many of my writing weaknesses such as citations, thesis statements, and transitions. Although there are still skills to improve upon, I have improved these skills by taking my time with each essay, proofreading them thoroughly, and reflecting on my work when finished.

I use critical thinking every day in my life starting from the minute I wake up. I always check the weather on my phone to determine what am I going to wear to work. I also use the weather to determine if I can take my cats out for a walk after work. I check the traffic reports to figure out what time to leave to leave for work in the morning. I also use critical thinking at work. I start my day off at work reviewing everything that needs to get done for the day. I then determine what project is a priority and complete that project first. I also use it to determine what to do for dinner for my kids. If it’s a school night I have to determine if there is enough time to make dinner before school starts. If I am pressed for on time then I have

Reading chapters nine through twelve in our text, “Asking the Right Questions; A Guide to Critical Thinking” refreshed my memory on concepts I had already known about. As a retired police officer, I was always trained to obtain eye wittiness accounts or their personal observations to crimes that have occurred. I agree with our authors on the unreliability of such observations. Most observers will not see all of the things that transpired. Additionally, people’s views are tainted by their own personal values, such as race, class and other biases. Then you have to consider the clarity in which they observed what had occurred. Was it dark? Did they have their glasses on? Were the scared and more focused on their safety? This is why, as a

Marriage and Family Therapists (MFT) relies on a variety of concepts that are applied to the effective performance of their duties. Many of these concepts are so prevalent that they may be viewed as social norms unbeknownst to their users. Fallacious thinking can be very deceiving because they have the probability of sounding like truth, since they are used so frequently. A useful definition of a logical fallacy is the substitution of facts which are distorted in an attempt to persuade (Bennett, 2013). Logical fallacies are concepts that apply to the MFT field and there are a plethora of categories within these notions, four of which are equivocation, faulty comparison, hasty generalization and non sequitur.

This article is about thinking and why it is important to think. The article starts out with an explanation on why the most important thing in life is faith but thinking is also incredibly important. The article then progresses into a discussion with your boss who informed you that you need to sharpen your critical thinking skills. This boss did not oversee you or understand what you did throughout the day but decided to say this remark to you anyway. The article then goes into the nine thinking modalities which are visionary, strategic, systems, creative, analytical or critical, lateral, structured, conceptual, and finally visual or spatial. These nine different modalities are useful when trying to solve a difficult problem or task because of the depth that one can go into when using them as a source. The article then discusses how none of the

I have always enjoyed writing, and I believed writing was a subject I was naturally good at. I turned in papers that were still rough drafts, I did not evaluate my sources, nor did I ever take the time to fully understand the prompt. It was not until my first semester of college, in my writing composition course, I realized that I had a lot of work ahead of me to be as good a writer as I thought I was. In the writing course, the students were required to compose several essays using different methods to help progress on the course objectives. The work in this portfolio demonstrates that I have used the methods of synthesis and evaluation of sources to advance my critical thinking skills and develop personal responsibility. Though I have

Throughout the semester, I have gained skills necessary for understanding and utilizing logic while writing. I am now aware that for any writing to be scholarly, it must possess an introductory section, a body and a conclusion section. Further, I am now able to understand as well as utilize most of the basic techniques useful in pre-writing, revision and editing. Through writing the “downloading from torrents” paper, I acquired skills in word processing, sentence elements, and punctuation. Further, I developed some special skills in writing a website analysis which is a critical aspect in contemporary learning as argued by Flateby (p 182). As the semester folds, I believe that I have gained the prerequisite skills in writing and critical thinking. However, I need to improve much on some of the common problems in writing that seems to disturb me especially grammar.

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In order to gain a sense of familiarity for first- year college writing, a small portfolio of the student’s work was submitted to help high schools students become more prepared for the college writing techniques. A college writing course is much different than a high school class. Although the course is only a semester long, instead of the traditional year long class high schools provide, I have learned how to write a stronger essay in a shorter amount of learning time. For this portfolio my previous work is highlighted to use as a spectacle into what college level writing really entails. For this first- year college writing course, I discovered writing can have different opinions, needs reliable sources, and is more related to real world concerns. This course has provided a structure to excel in becoming a better writer.