| Purpose: The goal of this assignment is to reflect on your critical thinking skills and to identify some of your strengths and weaknesses.Instructions: These days, you hear about critical thinking everywhere: schools teach it, companies seek employees that can do it, and democracies depend on it. What makes a critical thinker? The below list describes some of the core habits of a critical thinker. 1. Is open-minded and mindful of alternatives 2. Desires to be, and is, well-informed 3. Judges well the credibility of sources 4. Identifies reasons, assumptions, and conclusions 5. Asks appropriate clarifying questions 6. Judges well the quality of an argument, including its reasons, assumptions, evidence, and their degree of support for the conclusion 7. Can well develop and defend a reasonable position, doing justice to objections 8. Formulates plausible hypotheses 9. Plans and conducts experiments well 10. Defines terms in a way appropriate for the context 11. Takes a position (and changes a position) when the reasons and evidence are sufficient 12. Withholds judgment when the reasons and evidence are insufficient After looking at the list above, choose two habits that you exemplify and two habits where you might need some work. After choosing, explain why you exemplify those two habits, and why you might need work on the other two habits. Use examples to support your assertions. Formatting Expectations:1-page, double-spaced, 12-font, Times New Roman |
