Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking

1. An everyday activity

   • Critical thinking and analysis is an everyday activity
     • Every time you have to make a decision, the process you go through involves critical thinking.

2. Key Terms

   • Critical thinking
     • It is a general term that covers all thinking processes that strive to get below the surface of something
       • -Questioning
       • Probing
       • Analysisng
       • Testing
       • Exploring
   • Analysis Thinking
     • It involves particular processes
       • Standing back from the information given and examining it
       • Cheking the accuracy of statements
       • Cheking the logic
       • Identifying "gaps"
   • Critically Evaluate
     • It is to reach a conclusion
     • Critical analysis is a key activity in evaluation

3. Developing a critical approach

   • The guide below gives some initial critical questions to star asking in different study contexts.
     • Lectures: Is this clear? Am I understanding this? How might I use this?
     • Reading: What do I want to read? How would I señect? What type of reading is this?