What is Critical Thinking?
Critical thinking is a mental process of analyzing or evaluating information. It involves logical thinking and reasoning including skills such as comparison, classification, sequencing, cause/effect, patterning, webbing, analogies, deductive and inductive reasoning, forecasting, planning, hypothesizing, and critiquing.
Critical Thinking Strategies
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Read: to carefully process information for meaning |
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Explain: to make plain or understandable |
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Define: to tell the meaning |
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Justify: to prove or show to be right |
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Analyze: to break down into important points |
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Summarize: to tell the important points |
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Outline: to make a summary of the main points of an idea |
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Contrast: to show the differences among concepts |
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Prove: to give evidence |
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Compare: to show the similarities among concepts |
