Sunday, September 16, 2012
Critical Thinking
The reading stars with explanations and advice on how to excel in college level classes and how to maintain different views on the ideas and beliefs that are present in in the life of a college student. To further more into the reading, the first pages talk on how important critical thinking is as a learning ability and gives the reader some examples that they can use to practice and see how well they can perform with their current level of thinking. The view of myths are explained because they come from cultures that every person possesses and they explain how they can be used for academic works which leaves a student with the proper intellect that there searching for. There are however, different opinions that students have with cultural myths and believes and that why we question them to achieve and understanding between both thinking's and ideas. the idea of our personal ideals is talked about in the reading and they say on how our identities have so much to do in our work because we tend to write about our own beliefs in our own works. Our way of dialogue and visual thinking is also important because to express properly our way of thinking and and to have our own idea about the work of other people. The reading context acts like directions to understanding the reading that students will be facing in many of their college courses and how will their opinion about different subjects will be tested by many people. To understand subjects that some never even knew they existed, the reading speaks on how its important to recognize the issues and viewpoints of every reading that is made on the topics. Apart from our viewpoints, we must also view ourselves as people with the interest to learn from the topics of other peoples work and to understand their point of view to an extent degree that you feel safe with. In my opinion, to be a good student is to keep an open mind about many ideas that come from many myths and cultures and so to excel in reading materials is to really just keep an open mind. No other species in the planet has the intellect that we have and there's no point of just focusing our potential in only one way of thinking. Why is it that we have the freedom to think without borders? if you deny yourself that gift, then whats the point of even creating your own ideals about yous studies.
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Very well written response. You're completely right in regards to keeping an open mind to becoming the best student you can be. Not only does this give you the opportunity to try out all types of subjects, but it also allows you to form the most viable and accurate stance on that topic. As you've stated, it's baffling to think that we are the only lifeforms with such intellect, yet many choose to focus on a singular way of thinking.
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