January 11, 2012
CRT/205 Critical Thinking
Melissa Bramm
In the future, how will thinking critically influence the way you * Read? Thinking critically when reading has helped me keep an open mind about what I am reading. I know that when I sit down to read something now that I can’t have a closed mind, I have to look at it from every angle that I can. I have learned that I can ask question and try to find the answer in the answer when I am reading. I feel like I can pick up on some of the feeling that the writer had when they were writing the article, or the book that I am reading. For example with the discussion question for week 8, dealing with Terri Schiavo I got to think outside the box, it was a hard …show more content…
Thinking critically with writing is going to help me have more than just one point of view on how something happened. If a question is asked because I made something unclear, I will be able to answer it. I think that with writing I will be able to get the point I want across, and if there are questions I will be able to answer them without hesitating. If I have to use fallacies when writing I will be able to do so and I will be able to use the correct one. I will know how to explain things in a different way than just writing my opinion down and submitting it. I will be able to have a logical and moral …show more content…
With the media it is going to be the same as advertising. You are going to have to keep an open mind because the media can be harsh on people and twist things around. They can make things seem worst then what they are, if you don’t look at things from week to week, or when they talk about the story they are covering over and over you can get sucked into to thinking the wrong way about a situation. Usually with the media you can check them where they make mistakes. In order to do that you have to keep up with the full story from start to finish, then you can what they class as taught you about fallacies to make a decision. I think that with the fallacies we have learned about and those playing a role in critical thinking you can make sense of