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NEW ERA UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
A Term Paper about
Critical Thinking and Critical Reading Skills
Note Taking, Highlighting and Outlining
Paragraph and Making Paragraph
Reading and Interpreting Visuals
Skimming and Scanning
Making Inferences
A Term Paper presented to
Prof. Richard Caranguian
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirement in
English 1
Dela Cruz, Dianne Irish
Gonzales, Jonnel
Montañez, Janrio
Tiosen, Fiel Ervin
Forto, Joshua
Ponce, Gary
December 2013
Group IV
CRITICAL THINGKING AND CRITICAL READING SKILLS
WHAT IS CRITICAL THINKING?
Critical thinking is a higher order of thinking: it is the practice of using a number of different advanced thinking skills in a variety of complex ways.
Critical thinking focuses on thought: it looks at how facts are proven, arguments are formed, conclusions are reached, not just what the facts, argument or conclusion may be.
Critical thinking is self-reflexive: it involves reflecting on, questioning and testing your own thinking processes.
Critical thinking is discipline-specific: it engages in particular forms of reasoning, such as mathematical reasoning, historical analysis or literary interpretation, which are specific to a particular discipline.
HOW IS CRITICAL THINKING DIFFERENT FROM THINKING?
Thinking
Critical Thinking
Focus
On information: data, facts, examples
On ideas: opinions , positions
On ideas: assumptions, biases, flaws in reasoning, point of view, context, and implications
Activity
Organizing and making connections between pieces of information or ideas, sometimes making basic inferences
Deeply and broadly questioning and testing the ways in which an idea is formed as well as how you have been interpreting and examining the idea. Thinking about your own thinking while you are thinking about the thinking of others.
Goal
To form an opinion about what you are thinking about
To apply criteria in forming a conclusion
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
A Term Paper about
Critical Thinking and Critical Reading Skills
Note Taking, Highlighting and Outlining
Paragraph and Making Paragraph
Reading and Interpreting Visuals
Skimming and Scanning
Making Inferences
A Term Paper presented to
Prof. Richard Caranguian
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirement in
English 1
Dela Cruz, Dianne Irish
Gonzales, Jonnel
Montañez, Janrio
Tiosen, Fiel Ervin
Forto, Joshua
Ponce, Gary
December 2013
Group IV
CRITICAL THINGKING AND CRITICAL READING SKILLS
WHAT IS CRITICAL THINKING?
Critical thinking is a higher order of thinking: it is the practice of using a number of different advanced thinking skills in a variety of complex ways.
Critical thinking focuses on thought: it looks at how facts are proven, arguments are formed, conclusions are reached, not just what the facts, argument or conclusion may be.
Critical thinking is self-reflexive: it involves reflecting on, questioning and testing your own thinking processes.
Critical thinking is discipline-specific: it engages in particular forms of reasoning, such as mathematical reasoning, historical analysis or literary interpretation, which are specific to a particular discipline.
HOW IS CRITICAL THINKING DIFFERENT FROM THINKING?
Thinking
Critical Thinking
Focus
On information: data, facts, examples
On ideas: opinions , positions
On ideas: assumptions, biases, flaws in reasoning, point of view, context, and implications
Activity
Organizing and making connections between pieces of information or ideas, sometimes making basic inferences
Deeply and broadly questioning and testing the ways in which an idea is formed as well as how you have been interpreting and examining the idea. Thinking about your own thinking while you are thinking about the thinking of others.
Goal
To form an opinion about what you are thinking about
To apply criteria in forming a conclusion