Critical Thinking Chapter 2 Summary

Chapter 2 mostly focuses on the Critical thinking and reading. It starts with a picture with different meaning. We have to think carefully what the picture is trying to say. To be a critical thinker, you should be focused on the facts, analytic, open-minded, questioning, creative and active. Instead of directly jumping into reading we should first ask questions about the work’s rhetorical context. We should try to understand all the details to fully understand that work. And to do that we should ask our self with questions like, who is the author? What type or genre of source is it? What kind of audience is it implying or anticipating? What’s the author’s primary purpose? Authors sources of information? Then only we can completely understand