Critical Thinking Application Paper

Essay by snowflake20College, UndergraduateA, January 2009

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The concepts of critical thinking and creative thinking are both gaining increasing importance in the world today. Critical thinking allows people to understand difficult concepts in a manner that is clear and more defined. They can more readily understand those concepts if they employ critical thinking. In all portions of everyday life, a person is expected to make independent judgments. Those judgments are based on experience and knowledge. Without the ability to think critically, every situation that a person comes across would have to be considered in isolation from all other situations. When a person encounters a problem that is a new one, he or she may be able to use critical thinking to solve those problems.

Language is the key way to communicate in our world. People use it in many ways and it would be utterly impossible to live in this world without it. People can use it to distinguish between correct information, misinformation, biased reporting, and deliberate persuasion in our everyday world.

One must understand language to do so and the more knowledge one has of language the better one can make this separation. Language is the principal way to make this distinction. (Very good use of the information contained in the literature assigned)One manner in which a person can develop critical thinking skills is through using them in all situations. By doing this, a person can discern when to use certain skills. One way of using critical thinking is to review material and analyze that material. There are many times when critical thinking is an important concept. The process of critical thinking requires you to ask more questions of both others and of yourself before a decision or determination is made. (Good) In order to successfully evaluate data in a critical manner, you must have a...