| Reflect: Reflect on the characteristics of a critical thinker. Critical thinking gets you involved in a dialogue with the ideas you read from others in this class. To be a critical thinker, you need to be able to summarize, analyze, hypothesize, and evaluate new information that you encounter. Some of the critical thinking skills include research, Identifying biases, Inference, Determining relevance, and Curiosity.
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| Write: For this discussion, you will address the following prompts. Keep in mind that the article or video you’ve chosen should not be about critical thinking, but should be about someone making a statement, claim, or argument related to your Final Paper topic. One source should demonstrate rich skills and the other source should demonstrate the lack the skills. Personal examples should not be used.
· Explain at least five elements of critical thinking that you found in the reading material. Search the Internet, media, or the UAGC Library, and find an example in which good critical thinking skills are being demonstrated by the author or speaker. Summarize the content and explain why you think it demonstrates possession of these skills. Search the Internet, media, or the UAGC Library, and find an example in which the author or speaker lacks good skills in critical thinking. Summarize the content and explain why you think it demonstrates the absence of good, critical thinking skills. Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length, which should include a thorough response to each prompt. You are required to provide in-text citations of applicable required reading materials and/or any other outside sources you use to support your claims. Provide full reference entries of all sources cited at the end of your response. Please use correct APA format when writing in-text citations (see In-Text Citation Helper and references (see Formatting Your References List |
