What is critical thinking? What is it good for?
- Develop Ideas more.
- Activity learning.
- Positive & negative.
- Quizzical attitude.
- Be aware of our own bias, try to be object.
- Subject everything to scrutiny.
- Expose false ideas.
- Research all areas of a topic.
- Delve into theories across all spectrums.
- Use research to back theories.
- Why theories work for different people, places / situations.
- Discover new perspectives which therefore challenge people further.
4 words to describe critical theories:
- Theories
- Perspective
- Research
- Discover
- Objective
- Attention to detail
- Compare & contrast.
- Sorting & Labelling.
- Consider an issue more than once
- Evidence
- Realistic/rational.
- Strengths/satisfactory points.
- Weaknesses & Why?
- Look at flaws and bias.
- Change of response.
- Scepticism – doubting our judgement.
Don’t
- Logic not on emotion or social pressure.
- Be wary of false dichotomy – black & white theory.
- Don’t always go with initial opinion.
- There is not always a right or wrong.
- Don’t always agree with experts. Criticise them.
- Don’t have lack of knowledge and research on topic.
Critical thinking models
- Description – ask questions. What? Who? Where? When?
- Analysis. Why?
- Evaluation. What if? What next? So what?
- Description – What is it? What does it look like?
- Context – Where is it from? How has it been used? Political era?
- Evaluation – What is its significant value? Implication?
Academic Writing
Introduction – 10%
Para 1 – Point 1
Para 2 – Point 2
Para 3 – Point 3
Para 4 – Point 4
Para 5 – Point 5
Para 6 – Point 6
Conclusion – 10%
