[GE CLST M71A] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 35 pages long Study Guide!

• School: UCLA
• Department: General Education Clusters
• Course: GE CLST M71A
• Professor: Rensel, M.A.; Le Goff, A.G.; Panofsky, A.L.

Document Summary

The open university (2009) outline a useful stairway" to help students understand the skills in thinking critically. The lower steps are the basics that support moving to the higher-level thinking skills that can underpin taking a critical approach. Process - take in the information (i. e. in what you have read, heard, seen or done). Understand - comprehend the key points, assumptions, arguments and evidence presented. Analyse - examine how these key components fit together and relate to each other. Compare - explore the similarities, differences between the ideas you are reading about. Synthesise - bring together different sources of information to serve an argument or idea you are constructing. Make logical connections between the different sources that help you shape and support your ideas. Evaluate - assess the worth of an idea in terms of its relevance to your needs, the evidence on which it is based and how it relates to other pertinent ideas.