Critical thinking

  • Critical ThinkingThinking

     process will produce a writing that:
    • Strong reasoning
    • Strong Idea
    • Communicative
    • Insightful
    • Compelling
    • Convincing
  • Factors that make thinking or writing reasonable
    • Your thinking
      • Element of reasoning
        • Purpose
        • Questions
        • Implications and consequences
    • Quality of your thinking
      • Standards of critical thinking
  • The component of a paper
    • Planning
      • topic -> general subject to be discussed
      • thesis statement -> Claim about the topic
      • main point -> supports to the thesis statement (reasons, evidences)
      • structure/outline
    • Researching
      • Reading & Taking notes
    • Writing
      • Intro
      • Body
      • Conclussion
      • giving credit
    • Revising
  • Kinds of writing
    • Argumentative/Persuasive writing
    • Expository writing -> present the author understanding about something
    • Analytical writing -> detailed expository
    • Descriptive -> describe experience or a scene as how it looks/ feels
    • Narative -> tell a story
  • Writing for clarity
    • SEE-I method
      • State
      • Elaborate -> elaboration, explanation about what have been stated
      • Exemplify -> give example
      • Illustrate -> give analogy /methapor
    • Benefit of SEE-I
      • Clarifies and fills the page of the paper
        • fill the pages by developing the body with meaningfull information
      • Staircasing the important concept contained in thesis statements or main point
    • When to use SEE-I
      • explain thesis statement
      • explain ideas or concept
      • explain the second point of the theses
    • Framework for critical writing
      • topic
      • Analysing the topic using the elements of reasoningelements of reasoning
        There are at least 8 basic elements for reasoning:

        purpose
        Question/problems/issues
        point of view
        assumptions
        theories/models/concepts
        data/in...
      • The plan for the paper (thesis, main points, structure, outline)
      • Writing the paper using SEE-I
      • Addressing the other side of an issue
      • Making the paper better: Critical thinking standards Private or Broken Links
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        & Socratic questioningSocratic questioning

      • Making it flow