· How does Critical Thinking connect with the course material this week? (Course material: research paper on Education Trust Organization) How did Critical Thinking help you with your research this week?
Critical thinking skills are required when doing research papers. In research paper arguments favoring and opposing view are expressed. A writer needs to provide evidence related to a topic. He cannot simply support his personal favorite idea. He should be independent and neutral while researching any topic. Critical thinking is the process of making the decision. All discussions and arguments in the research paper are used for analyzing, reasoning, evaluating, problem-solving and decision-making steps. These five stages required for effective decision making.
· Write down at least one specific aspect of Critical Thinking that you need to still develop and describe how you could work on developing that aspect.
I need to develop analyzing aspect in my comprehension skill. Analyzing is a very important aspect of critical thinking. The writer needs to analyze resource, argument, and opinions before using it in his research.
· How does Critical Thinking connect to achieving your career goals?
My goal is to become a research writer or data analyst. Analyzing cannot be learned but its born skill. One can polish this skill. Critical thinking and all its aspects are required to develop for being data analyst and research writer. I read work of major critical thinkers and note their techniques. These techniques were helpful during reading and writing.
· Based on your work in the course as well as general education courses at XYZ university, explain what Critical Thinking means to you.
In all my general education career as well as in graduation course, critical thinking was related to all subjects. We have to do assignments every week to evaluate any topics. At least one of five aspects of critical thinking was always involved in it. For me, critical thinking is a human behavior followed in all decision making processes. Decision making helped me in reading and comprehension of all topics while reading the material.
· Describe a specific assignment, presentation, or project you worked on in one of your past courses at Grantham University that allowed you to develop Critical Thinking?
In one of our assignment where we have to write an essay on technological effects on human health. We have to consider all the advantages and disadvantages of daily used technology. Using evaluation and decision analyzing skills make a decision. It was a difficult topic as both sides were equally strong and we cannot simply favor one side. It required lots of brain streaming and evaluating to favor one side. It makes me favor technology with some suggestion although at the start my gut feeling was against technology.
· Write down at least one question you have about your organization, your research project, or this course in general?
How can we stick to all values of course in practical life?
How data analyst or social scientist can use critical thinking in field projects?
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