Critical Thinking, Writing Clearly and Problem Solving
Critical Thinking, Writing Clearly, and Problem Solving Critical Thinking, Writing Clearly, and Problem Solving. Abstract Thinking can be biased, partial, distorted, misinformed and prejudice. So the purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of critical thinking. This paper will explain how a person can think critical, so they will not have their thoughts being partial, distorted, misinformed or prejudice. Critical thinking is self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored and self-corrective thinking. Effective communication and problem solving is required to think critical. You should learn how to apply critical thinking to your life and improve your quality of life by doing so after reading this paper. Introduction In the first section, the conceptual overview will give the reader a better understanding on critical thinking and how critical thinking is related to the scientific method, as well as gaining a better understanding on critical thinking. The second section Piaget, Cognitive Development and Critical thinking. In this section we will discusses Piaget and his four steps of cognitive development, then look at Howard Gardner influences. The next section is Critical thinking and writing clearly. In this section we will look Paul and Elders checklist for reasoning and is discuss and compared to writing clearly. Critical thinking, decisions and problem solving is the last section. In this section we will discuss the importance in applying Critical thinking to one’s everyday life. Also looking at the strategies proposed by Paul and Elder, and Duffy and Atwater. Conceptual Overview There are three main aspects of Critical thinking that over lap’s science. The first is empirical evidence which is one’s senses. Another is logical reasoning being able to reason correctly. The last one is having a skeptical attitude toward anything. That is how the sciences find things to research. This is also how examine the evidence thoroughly without