| Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page | Gita DasBender. “Critical Thinking in College Writing: From the Personal to the Academic.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2 2011 |
| Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words | This article focuses mostly on the concept of critical thinking. Critical thinking is used in many activities and disciplines. According to DasBender, “critical thinking is also a process that is fundamental to all disciplines.” (38) A critical thinker is a person who can read and understand text well with an open mind and creating ideas of their own based on the text they just read. A critical thinker asks him or herself important questions and evaluates the given texts while asking those questions. A critical thinker analyzes texts with an open mind and creates broad questions from an unbiased approach. |
| Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. | “Critical thinking is also a process that is fundamental to all disciplines.”
“To be a critical thinker you not only have to have an informed opinion about the text but also a thoughtful response to it.” |
| How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?
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This connects with most of my high school and middle school english classes where they taught critical thinking frequently. |
| Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. | Why does a critical thinker have to have an unbiased and open approach to a subject? |