| Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page |
DasBender, Gita Critical Thinking in College Writing: From the Personal to the Academic 2011 |
| Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words |
DasBender talks about the term critical thinking and what it means. She says that critical thinking and analysis are requirements in writing. The writer should not be afraid of critical thinking. The concept of critical thinking is hard to grasp because of the difficulty of the text they are reading. Critical thinking carries a method and a technique to understand what you are reading. A critical thinker is a good reader because they are ready to analyze the text with an open mind. She gives questions on what a critical thinker should ask while reading a text. The writer should be able to carefully pick out ideas and identify any major points they see in the text they are reading. |
| Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. |
Critical thinking- an analysis that a writer forms while pointing out ideas in a text in order to make a judgment |
| How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?
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This connects back to when I was learning about critical thinking in high school. We had to analyze a text of a passage and/or essay and evaluate what it means by answering questions related to the text. |
| Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. |
Was there a time where you had to use critical thinking in order to understand a particular text? |
