ADMS 3900 Lecture Notes - Concept Map, Critical Thinking
2 May 2013
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Critical thinking is an approach to reading, thinking and learning that involves asking questions, examining assumptions, and weighing the validity of arguments. Critical: means to question analyze or make sense of something. Identify the points of view that underlie the stated belief and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses: casual claims a. b. Judging the validity of casual inferences: techniques of persuasion, ways in which ideas are expresses in order to persuade readers and listeners, key concepts are presented, how contradictory evidence is managed, how words can sway judgment. Identify authors claim: major conclusion the author is trying to persuade us to accept. Claim: broad issue addressed at a greater level of abstraction that the evidence. Cue words: therefore, thus, in summary, in short, i believe. Uncontested claims: situation in which one accepts the claim without examining the evidence. The conditions in which we accept the claim without challenging the evidence.
