English 5/211 develops the ability to analyze, criticize, and advocate ideas. Critical thinking looks at the relationship between language and logic, introduces rhetoric or persuasive writing and tools students can use to evaluate information based on facts, perceptions, assumptions, evidence, reasons, inferences, judgments, induction, deduction and conclusions.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Cyber-Freewrite
What is critical thinking? Read classmates' responses to the question before taking the Aptitude Test.
Wayne Chen Professor Sabir English 5 3 February 2011
Cyber-Freewrite: What is Critical Thinking?
My own idea of critical thinking would be to analyze texts in a way to enrich and educate that of my own education and knowledge of the literature that I am reading so that I can reach a better understanding.
Critical thinking is the process by which you look at text critically and attempt to anyalyze the text for a deeper meaning than what appears to be just on the surface.Thinking criticaly means to look at the issue/matter more deeply and not just what the text appears to be. Almost everything has a deeper meaning than what it may appear to be, and critical thinking will help you see and understand the deeper meaning.Critical thinking help and see what the issue really is, and how it may connect to other things the author is talking about. Author of a book may write a simple sentence, but if you think critically you can see what he is really trying to say within the context of the text, and you will see the deeper more complex withing the same text that you would never see without critical thinking.
Critical thinking is one of those things that is difficult to explain because you have to just know what it is. Critical thinking is when you think outside the box of a topic and go deep. You think of what your writing thoroughly. Give great discription and thought into what you are wrinting.
Dennis Foley Professor Sabir English 5 February 3, 2011
What is critical thinking? Critical thinking can produce in depth conclusions. It is thoroughly engaging thinking, which produces meaningful results. This essay is an example of critical thinking.
What is critical thinking? In my opinion, before you THINK something, you should KNOW something first. So the critical thinking basises on the reading, and basises the thing that you have the knowledge of the area that you think.
Henry Wu Professor Sabir English 5 3 February 2011
What is critical thinking?
Critical thinking is a gift bestowed upon humans to think about a subject or problem in a logical and analytical way. It certainly is unique exclusively to us and it has allowed the human race to achieve accomplishments such as building a nuclear power plant, deduce the structure of an atom, and even send a human to space. If one tries to spend an eternity teaching a dog or an ant about math it will amount to nothing. Critical thinking is an amazing cognitive ability and is fascinating to see the fruit of its results.
Sophia De Claro Professor Sabir English 5 3 February 2011
Critical thinking is making sure you understand the subject clearly, in other words anaylse. Understanding everything around it for example do not take one side. Having an open mind is a very good trait to have. You are able to listen to other points of view which can help you in your studies.
What is critical thinking? Read classmates' responses to the question before taking the Aptitude Test.
Critical thinking to me is more then just reading a lesson, and answering questions in essay form. Its more like reading in between the lines of what is being asked, and expressing your answer in a more in depth way. Example, I’m being asked to write about what critical thinking is, a simple minded person would probably say thinking deeply into your work, but logistic person would say what I said.
Andrea Giang Professor Sabir English 5 03 February 2011
What is critical thinking?
Critical thinking is when a person is able to analyze a certain issue or topic they are given and use what they have come up with to form a conclusion. Instead of simply skimming the surface of an issue or topic, they look deeper into the issue and try to understand the underlying meaning. They use the ideas and evidence that they have discovered and tie them together to form a conclusion.
Frena Zamudio Professor Sabir English 5 03 February 2011
FREEWRITE: CRITICAL THINKING
Critical Thinking is determining the meaning and importance of a significant issue. It is also a way to evaluate the evidence to guide a make a better decision to solve a particular problem. It is a kind of thinking in which involves observation, interpretation, analysis etc.
Jeff Norkunas Sabir English 5 Feb 3, 2011 Critical thinking is the ability to decern between logical thought , combined with factual evidence, as opposed to creating ideas based on emotions and belief.
Veronica Flores Professor Sabir English 5 3 February 2011
What is Critical Thinking?
Critical thinking is just a way of analyzing a thought process. Weighing the pros and cons of a scenario and determining a logical explanation/ conclusion to the decision making process.
Paris Middleton Professor Sabir English 5 2 February 2011 What is Critical Thinking? Critical thinking is when you go in depth into a subject or a matter or easier read as thinking hard. When I think critically I usually like to look up what I am trying to understand, before I can even begin my brain to working. Critical thinking helps expands your knowledge and helps you go further than you usually would just by thinking regularly.
I believe critical thinking is the process taken to find a deeper meaning to a subject or topic. A prime topic for critical thinking would be the topic of love.
Response to the question: What is critical thinking?
To think critically is to actively evaluate all the visible and sensory material that approaches one’s mind. With the use of life experience, logical reason, and accurate language, cognitive beings, humankind, are gifted with the ability to assess and judge the world around them.
Ricarda Sawatzki Professor Sabir English 5 3 February 2011
What is critical thinking. Critical thinking is the ability to reflect on a situation or an issue from different angles. Critical thinking does not mean that we should blindly believe in what the media or the environment wants to make us believe, critical thinking goes beyond this and makes a person questioning and wondering about a circumstance. Critical thinking can protect us from manipulation.
Kindra Spencer Professor Sabir English 5 3 February 2011
What is critical thinking?
Well critical thinking to me is to be able analyze your own thoughts and feeling. I think the critical thinking is to be able to change your thoughts into a professional way like maybe writing a speech . I also think that is very important to have in certain job settings.
Dylan Young Professor Sabir English 5 February 3 2011
Critical thinking to me is how you analyze cultural and other ideas about what’s going on in the world around you. It is the ability to make your own ideas and write them down while also having your own opinion on the subject, using facts and evidence to back up your ideas. It is a test of your logic and also opens up your mind to ideas and opinions that you wouldn’t usually focus on in an English class. Critical thinking is an important skill to have in life because it is part of your individualism. It is what sets your opinion apart from others.
Critical thinking is a way of processing information to either learn from it or to analize it for you benefit. Critical thinking is not everyday thinking, it requires deep thought, brainstorming, many hours of processing information.
Darin Lago Professor Sabir English 5 2 February 2011
What is critical thinking?
I believe critical thinking is a matter of deciphering and trying to fully understand what is being expressed and the argument it possesses. I also think it is a way of reflecting about yourself and the actions you do and why you did it. It something we use and sometimes something we have to be taught to better our awareness and ourselves.
Criticle thinking is about analyzing information and the thought proces you put that information through. It is also discussing a topic and picking it apart. Asking every question that you could possible raise and looking for the answer to that question. I believe experience also plays a major part in criticle thinking because when you have went through some thing personally you can looked at it from different perspectives.
Dawit Girma Pr. Sabir Feb-03-2011 Critical thinking Critical thinking is the ability to think thoroughly, that is to compare things, to be able to see things from different perspectives, to examine the source of things and to find out the reasoning of things. It is all about to have a clear out look of things, to determine what is correct and what not.
02/03/11 Fatimata Traore Wanda Sabir Critical thinking Critical thinking, for me you have to know something in order to think about it but thinking about things is what make us whom we are in life
David Kovalevskij Professor Wanda Sabir English 5 February 3rd, 2011
What is Critical Thinking? Critical thinking to me has to do with thinking more deeply about things and not just the first thing that comes to mind about the subject. It has to do with critisizing someone heavily and to try to feel what the writed or the speaker was feeling at the same time. To undestand more about where the writer or speaker is coming from. Do deep analysis about whatever it is you are reading about.
Critical Thinking, magnitude of ideal of have the method of proceduring a high level of implemertion of leaning a way of prinicple to making your behavior, higher in eduration.
Brian Santos Professor Sabir English 5 February 3, 2011
What is critical thinking? Critical thinking is the act of comprehensively scrutinizing what you hear, read and watch by researching the contents, and then drawing from that a non-biased in depth analysis of what the contents were trying to convey and why. Sometimes there are no facts being presented at all, but are presented in a factual context. The job of the critical thinker is to figure out what parts of the contents are fact or just propaganda. Don’t believe everything you hear, read or watch and sometimes taste. Take for instance, something as simple as a bag of delicious chips laden in monosodium glutamate. The critical thinker would know why the chips taste so good.
Sandahl von Sydow Professor Sabir English 5 February 6, 2011
Critical thinking is the ability to deconstruct and analyze information. It is an ability one learns through education and exposure to situations where one must analyze what is fact and what is fiction. Critical thinking is most commonly associated with deconstructing arguments in a debate setting. However, critical thinking can also be used to discern one's own beliefs, messages from the media, even references to real life events in fiction novels.
Critical thinking is a vital skill. Without the ability to think critically, one can find themselves susceptible to false arguments and messages. Most commonly this is seen in the political arena, but the best example is commercial media. For example, a commercial airs advertising a kitchen appliance priced at “four easy payments” of $39.99. Many people would see $39.99 and forget to times it by four, which would bring the total cost to $159.96 plus separate shipping and handling if it came with a “gift”. A better example would be a consumer buying a car. The sales man purposely tries to trick the buyer into thinking they are getting a great deal with monthly payments of $299 with interest. Meanwhile, making sure the buyer glazes over the fact that their car loan is a six year loan.
Critical thinking is useful, if not necessary, for practical everyday use. It can help one determine which politician is the biggest liar to avoiding common pitfalls in dealing with salesmen. It is a skill that should be introduced at a young age, and revisited often.
Christian Del Rosario Professor Sabir English 5 6 February 2011
What is Critical Thinking?
Critical thinking, to me, is thinking deeply about the subject. Its not about taking sides, but looking over all point of views to understand the subject. It is also having an open mind about all parts of the subjects to come to a conclusion.
Wayne Chen
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
3 February 2011
Cyber-Freewrite: What is Critical Thinking?
My own idea of critical thinking would be to analyze texts in a way to enrich and educate that of my own education and knowledge of the literature that I am reading so that I can reach a better understanding.
Melvin Pandey
ReplyDelete3/2/2011
Prof.Sabir
English 5
Critical thinking is the process by which you look at text critically and attempt to anyalyze the text for a deeper meaning than what appears to be just on the surface.Thinking criticaly means to look at the issue/matter more deeply and not just what the text appears to be. Almost everything has a deeper meaning than what it may appear to be, and critical thinking will help you see and understand the deeper meaning.Critical thinking help and see what the issue really is, and how it may connect to other things the author is talking about. Author of a book may write a simple sentence, but if you think critically you can see what he is really trying to say within the context of the text, and you will see the deeper more complex withing the same text that you would never see without critical thinking.
Mercedes Rawlyk
ReplyDeleteSabir
English 5
3 January 2011
What is critical thinking?
Critical thinking is one of those things that is difficult to explain because you have to just know what it is. Critical thinking is when you think outside the box of a topic and go deep. You think of what your writing thoroughly. Give great discription and thought into what you are wrinting.
Dennis Foley
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
February 3, 2011
What is critical thinking? Critical thinking can produce in depth conclusions. It is thoroughly engaging thinking, which produces meaningful results. This essay is an example of critical thinking.
Hang Lu
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
2-3-2011
What is critical thinking?
In my opinion, before you THINK something, you should KNOW something first. So the critical thinking basises on the reading, and basises the thing that you have the knowledge of the area that you think.
Henry Wu
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
3 February 2011
What is critical thinking?
Critical thinking is a gift bestowed upon humans to think about a subject or problem in a logical and analytical way. It certainly is unique exclusively to us and it has allowed the human race to achieve accomplishments such as building a nuclear power plant, deduce the structure of an atom, and even send a human to space. If one tries to spend an eternity teaching a dog or an ant about math it will amount to nothing. Critical thinking is an amazing cognitive ability and is fascinating to see the fruit of its results.
Sophia De Claro
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
3 February 2011
Critical thinking is making sure you understand the subject clearly, in other words anaylse. Understanding everything around it for example do not take one side. Having an open mind is a very good trait to have. You are able to listen to other points of view which can help you in your studies.
Nicholas Jones
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
2-3-11
What is critical thinking? Read classmates' responses to the question before taking the Aptitude Test.
Critical thinking to me is more then just reading a lesson, and answering questions in essay form. Its more like reading in between the lines of what is being asked, and expressing your answer in a more in depth way. Example, I’m being asked to write about what critical thinking is, a simple minded person would probably say thinking deeply into your work, but logistic person would say what I said.
Andrea Giang
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
03 February 2011
What is critical thinking?
Critical thinking is when a person is able to analyze a certain issue or topic they are given and use what they have come up with to form a conclusion. Instead of simply skimming the surface of an issue or topic, they look deeper into the issue and try to understand the underlying meaning. They use the ideas and evidence that they have discovered and tie them together to form a conclusion.
Frena Zamudio
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
03 February 2011
FREEWRITE: CRITICAL THINKING
Critical Thinking is determining the meaning and importance of a significant issue. It is also a way to evaluate the evidence to guide a make a better decision to solve a particular problem. It is a kind of thinking in which involves observation, interpretation, analysis etc.
Jeff Norkunas
ReplyDeleteSabir
English 5
Feb 3, 2011
Critical thinking is the ability to decern between logical thought , combined with factual evidence, as opposed to creating ideas based on emotions and belief.
Veronica Flores
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
3 February 2011
What is Critical Thinking?
Critical thinking is just a way of analyzing a thought process. Weighing the pros and cons of a scenario and determining a logical explanation/ conclusion to the decision making process.
Paris Middleton
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
2 February 2011
What is Critical Thinking?
Critical thinking is when you go in depth into a subject or a matter or easier read as thinking hard. When I think critically I usually like to look up what I am trying to understand, before I can even begin my brain to working. Critical thinking helps expands your knowledge and helps you go further than you usually would just by thinking regularly.
Andre Tom
ReplyDelete2/3/11
Prof. Sabir
English 5
I believe critical thinking is the process taken to find a deeper meaning to a subject or topic. A prime topic for critical thinking would be the topic of love.
Sarah Speck
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
2-2-2011
Response to the question: What is critical thinking?
To think critically is to actively evaluate all the visible and sensory material that approaches one’s mind. With the use of life experience, logical reason, and accurate language, cognitive beings, humankind, are gifted with the ability to assess and judge the world around them.
Ricarda Sawatzki
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
3 February 2011
What is critical thinking.
Critical thinking is the ability to reflect on a situation or an issue from different angles. Critical thinking does not mean that we should blindly believe in what the media or the environment wants to make us believe, critical thinking goes beyond this and makes a person questioning and wondering about a circumstance. Critical thinking can protect us from manipulation.
Kindra Spencer
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
3 February 2011
What is critical thinking?
Well critical thinking to me is to be able analyze your own thoughts and feeling. I think the critical thinking is to be able to change your thoughts into a professional way like maybe writing a speech . I also think that is very important to have in certain job settings.
Dylan Young
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
February 3 2011
Critical thinking to me is how you analyze cultural and other ideas about what’s going on in the world around you. It is the ability to make your own ideas and write them down while also having your own opinion on the subject, using facts and evidence to back up your ideas. It is a test of your logic and also opens up your mind to ideas and opinions that you wouldn’t usually focus on in an English class. Critical thinking is an important skill to have in life because it is part of your individualism. It is what sets your opinion apart from others.
Javier Chavez
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
2-3-2011
Critical Thinking:
Critical thinking is a way of processing information to either learn from it or to analize it for you benefit. Critical thinking is not everyday thinking, it requires deep thought, brainstorming, many hours of processing information.
Darin Lago
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
2 February 2011
What is critical thinking?
I believe critical thinking is a matter of deciphering and trying to fully understand what is being expressed and the argument it possesses. I also think it is a way of reflecting about yourself and the actions you do and why you did it. It something we use and sometimes something we have to be taught to better our awareness and ourselves.
Ocean Beverly
ReplyDelete3, Feb 2011
English 5
Wanda Sabair
Criticle thinking is about analyzing information and the thought proces you put that information through. It is also discussing a topic and picking it apart. Asking every question that you could possible raise and looking for the answer to that question. I believe experience also plays a major part in criticle thinking because when you have went through some thing personally you can looked at it from different perspectives.
Dawit Girma
ReplyDeletePr. Sabir
Feb-03-2011
Critical thinking
Critical thinking is the ability to think thoroughly, that is to compare things, to be able to see things from different perspectives, to examine the source of things and to find out the reasoning of things. It is all about to have a clear out look of things, to determine what is correct and what not.
02/03/11
ReplyDeleteFatimata Traore
Wanda Sabir
Critical thinking
Critical thinking, for me you have to know something in order to think about it but thinking about things is what make us whom we are in life
David Kovalevskij
ReplyDeleteProfessor Wanda Sabir
English 5
February 3rd, 2011
What is Critical Thinking?
Critical thinking to me has to do with thinking more deeply about things and not just the first thing that comes to mind about the subject. It has to do with critisizing someone heavily and to try to feel what the writed or the speaker was feeling at the same time. To undestand more about where the writer or speaker is coming from. Do deep analysis about whatever it is you are reading about.
Class 5 James Wesson
ReplyDeleteCriitical Thinking 2/3/11
Critical Thinking, magnitude of ideal of have the method of proceduring a high level of implemertion of leaning a way of prinicple to making your behavior, higher in eduration.
Brian Santos
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
February 3, 2011
What is critical thinking? Critical thinking is the act of comprehensively scrutinizing what you hear, read and watch by researching the contents, and then drawing from that a non-biased in depth analysis of what the contents were trying to convey and why. Sometimes there are no facts being presented at all, but are presented in a factual context. The job of the critical thinker is to figure out what parts of the contents are fact or just propaganda. Don’t believe everything you hear, read or watch and sometimes taste. Take for instance, something as simple as a bag of delicious chips laden in monosodium glutamate. The critical thinker would know why the chips taste so good.
Sandahl von Sydow
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
February 6, 2011
Critical thinking is the ability to deconstruct and analyze information. It is an ability one learns through education and exposure to situations where one must analyze what is fact and what is fiction. Critical thinking is most commonly associated with deconstructing arguments in a debate setting. However, critical thinking can also be used to discern one's own beliefs, messages from the media, even references to real life events in fiction novels.
Critical thinking is a vital skill. Without the ability to think critically, one can find themselves susceptible to false arguments and messages. Most commonly this is seen in the political arena, but the best example is commercial media. For example, a commercial airs advertising a kitchen appliance priced at “four easy payments” of $39.99. Many people would see $39.99 and forget to times it by four, which would bring the total cost to $159.96 plus separate shipping and handling if it came with a “gift”. A better example would be a consumer buying a car. The sales man purposely tries to trick the buyer into thinking they are getting a great deal with monthly payments of $299 with interest. Meanwhile, making sure the buyer glazes over the fact that their car loan is a six year loan.
Critical thinking is useful, if not necessary, for practical everyday use. It can help one determine which politician is the biggest liar to avoiding common pitfalls in dealing with salesmen. It is a skill that should be introduced at a young age, and revisited often.
Christian Del Rosario
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
6 February 2011
What is Critical Thinking?
Critical thinking, to me, is thinking deeply about the subject. Its not about taking sides, but looking over all point of views to understand the subject. It is also having an open mind about all parts of the subjects to come to a conclusion.