The Importance And Skills Of Critical Thinking

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Question:

Discuss about the Communication And Critical Thinking.

Critical Thinking is  the  ability  of  various  user  to  analyze  the  thinking  nature, provide  evidence  of  the  ideas. It  is  a multi  step  process  which  can  be  defined  as fast process  where  an  individual  can  observe , analyze and  present  their  new  ideas  and   add  it  all  into  present  understanding (Jackson & Chapman, 2012). It  can  be  applied  in  a  large  number  of  regions  such  as  reading, written  work  and  discussions. It  is  a  real life model  on which  people  can  build   more  efficient  problem  solving  skills  which  will ultimately valuable  for  the  organization. It will ultimately improve interpreting skills and problem solving skills (Jackson & Chapman, 2012). The  ultimate  goal  is  to  follow  various  logical  steps  and  conclude  at  a particular  decision.  The important points for decision-making are approach, save time, better communication, decision –making and reason(Alsagoff et al., 2012)

Approach: With this critical thinking method  one  can  develop  awareness  about  various  new   techniques  of  approaching  a  problem. It minimizes the use of standard problem solving technique(Alsagoff et al., 2012)

 Save time: Critical analysis help in saving time. It is  relevant  to  know  that  all  the   information  helps  in decision  making, on  the  contrary  one  can   differentiate  between  relevant  and irrelevant ones. Critical  analysis  helps  in  setting  priority  of  time  and  resources  by  analyzing  essentiality  of  various  process (Jackson & Chapman, 2012).

Improving Communication:  It teaches people how to analyze and build evidence for any source. It ultimately aims to produce effective communicator (Jackson & Chapman, 2012).

Decision making :  It mainly  works  with  critical thinking  to  make it  more  easier  for anyone. A person generally works with more analytics and leaves behind intuition and guesswork (Alsagoff et al., 2012)

Reason:  It  will  help  to  become  a  more  reasoned  and  appropriate  problem  solver.  One can run two types of reasoning that is inductive and deductive. The usage of the inductive and deductive type depends on its usage. Prioritizing decision in various reasons and logic over emotion or guesswork will ultimately led to effective problem solving (Arends, 2014). 

Critical thinking is nothing but a series of multistep process. It is defined as a fast  process where  people  can  observe , judge and  present  new  ideas  and  sum  it  to  current  understanding.  It  can  be  applied  in  a  variety  of  platform  ranging  from  reading  to  discussion (Halpern, 2014).  It  is  not  considered  as  a  negative  process  in spite of  the  fact  that  it  has critical  thinking  has many  criticism. It is more useful to link critical thinking with various standards and criteria.  It can be  considered  more than  a  problem  which  can be  used to  build  successful   more efficiently  decision  making  techniques  which  will  ultimately  bring  benefit  to  the  organization.

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It is  focuses  the  application  of  logic  for  better  and  reasoned  decision  making. Many times critical thinking is misjudged as criticism (Kim et al., 2013). It mainly  follows  a  sequential  logical  step  and  arrive  at  a  appropriate  conclusion. It  also  involves  the  evaluation  of  various  sources  like  data, facts,  observed  behaviors and  research  finding. Good  thinkers  can  draw  conclusion  from   a  set  of   data  containing  information  for  making  a  solution   of  a  problem  and  decision  making (Kim et al. ,2013). Some  examples  of  critical   thinking  are, a  plumber  who  uses  critical  thinking  techniques  to  judge  which  material  is  appropriate  for  a  particular  job,  similarly  a job  seekers  uses   his  critical  thinking  to  judge  vacancies  in  various  firms  and  then  he  decides  the  suitable  organization  for  his  application (Halpern, 2014).

 Critical  thinking  is  mainly  considered  as  a   process of  putting  questions  to  data  containing  important  information  (Liu,  Frankel & Roohr, 2014). For  example when  a  student  reads  the  information in  a  textbook  then  he  can  put  questions like   what  a  leader or  a  professor  or  his  classmate  says  about  a particular  topic.   The word logic is derived from Greek word logike, which means art of reasoning (Halpern, 2014).  By  using  a  logic a person  can judge what  is  good  or  bad  for  him. It  also  helps  in  the  distinction  of   good  or  bad  reasoning,  truth and  falsehood.  By  the  help  of  logic  one  can  evaluate  new  thinking’s  and to  make  good  decisions  (Arends, 2014). 

Analysis:  It  refers  to  the  ability  of  judging  something  and  then  one  can  understand its  meaning  and  its  representations(Armstrong  et al., 2015). 

Clarification: It  not  only  the  ability  to  summarize  information and  to  state  in  such  a  way  that  it  is  easily  understandable  to  people (Arends, 2014). 

Evaluation: These  skills  are  mainly  related  to  accessing  or   judging  the   period  of  an  idea  (Fairclough, 2014).

Explanation:  Explanation  can  be  considered  similar  to  clarification  and  it  mainly  focuses on  the  ability  to  clearly  reveal  information  and  even include  ones   perspective  to  that  particular  data  containing  vital information (Armstrong  et al., 2015). 

Inference: This  mainly  focuses  on  the  ability  bring  out  conclusion  from  the information  that  is  provided  to  the  people.

Interpretation:  It mainly focuses on the understanding of required information.  It also infers  to  communicate  the  meaning  of  a  information that  is clearly  understandable  by  various audiences  (Liu,  Frankel & Roohr, 2014).

 Judgment:  Similar  to  evaluation,  judgment  can  be  considered  as  an  idea  or  piece of  important  information  (Fairclough, 2014).

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Objectivity:  It  mainly  focuses  on  evaluating  an  idea  without  biasing  it  further.

Problem  Solving:  It  is  an  another  important  technique  or skill  that  can  be  considered  for  judging  or  analyzing  of  problem, generating  a  particular  solution, its  implementation and  after  that  accessing  it  ( Fairclough, 2014).

Reasoning:  It refers thinking of a problem or question logically. 

Critical  thinking  can be  consider  as   an  important  skill  for  fresh  graduate  to  check its  necessity  in  workplace. During  their  research  or  study,  students  should  use  critical  thinking  for  development of  their  knowledge.  It is  also  vital  for  students  while  making  decisions  from   variety  of  given  choices while choosing  activities for   development  of  skill  and  techniques (Dwyer, Hogan &Stewart, 2014). It  enables  students  to  take  decision  to  make  an  output  for  knowledge, developing  techniques which is  used  by    learner  and  gradually decreases their dependency  on  other various  University. When  this  type  of  critical  thinking  is  integrated   with  current  knowledge  then  it  can  led  to  the  formation  of  new  ideas and knowledge (Armstrong  et al., 2015). 

Critical  thinking  plays  a key role in  the  life  of  other  graduate  techniques  or outcomes  of  learning  such   as  solving  of  problem, making  of  important  decision  and  communication (Dwyer, Hogan &Stewart, 2014). Critical thinking should not be misunderstanding with problem solving. Critical thinking is generally considered as an important   component of problem solving.

Critical thinking can be easily taught to people. Teaching of critical thinking mainly involves breaking down of processes.  Each step must be explained and practiced which will ultimately benefit the students (Dwyer, Hogan &Stewart, 2014). The academic plays a key role as a facilitator to provide students to develop an understanding of critical thinking (McPeck, 2016).  Then they must allow students a particular span of time for its practice and to receive feedback from it (Moore, 2013).

Technical critical thinking mainly comprises of two parts, firstly providing students a critical thinking process and secondly providing an opportunity to various students for the application of this process. During set up of student task the following points of critical thinking should be considered like it should be enough small to stop its effects on the student, should be non-aggressive like it should not include topics where students are uncomfortable in expressing their point of view  (Liu,  Frankel & Rohr, 2014).

Time is generally considered to as an important factor of critical thinking. It generally depends on time for its well understanding (McPeck, 2016).  Various students also depend  on  time  for  development  of  the  important  skills  for  critical  thinking  (Moore, 2013). The important steps of critical thinking are reflect, Question, Contextualize, evaluate, analyze and observe (Borglin & Fagerström, 2012).

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Critical  thinking  is  considered  to  be  a fundamental  factor  for  working  scholarly. Various  universities  around  the  globe  is  responsible  for  teaching  theses skills  in  form  of  some  degree through some  academics  (Wallace & Wray, 2016). Nowadays  various universities  have  units  that  provide  support to  students  in  development  of  critical  thinking techniques ( Wild & Han, 2014). With  the  help of  critical thinking  process various students  provide  a  clear  idea  which  can  help  in the  assistance  of  their  analysis  (Terry, 2012). There  are  certain  factors  that  are  included  in  critical  thinking  are  analyzing  of  a  problem  with  the  help  of  written  essay  within  a  organization,  learning  of  various  problem, various case  studies,  various simulation,  integrated  learning  of   work   through placement  and  practices. For example critical  thinking  in  the  field  of  health  can  be  considered  treating  the various patients  with  proper  medicine. The  student  must  be  familiar  with  the  various  working  policies  and  ethics  related  to  it (Borglin & Fagerström, 2012).

 Students  have  developed  critical  thinking  techniques  they  just  need  to  put  these  things in  their  readings  and  draw  a  conclusion  from  their  course.  Critical  thinking  is  very  helpful  to   students  as  it  changes  the  way  of   reading  from  passive form  to  active  form  (Moore, 2013).  Various universities round the globe also provides a large amount  of  resource for  promoting  of  critical  teaching  technology  in  their   journals  of  academic  and  newspaper  article  (Price & Harrington, 2015). It  also  aims  to  provide  students  with  variety  of   texts  that aims  to  encourage direct  learning  in  that  point. It  also  aims  to  provide  an  opportunity  for  recognizing  critical  thinking  in  many  domains (Borglin & Fagerström, 2012).

  Students are capable of analyzing that what they have read they should start forming various formula which is considered as  an  important  part  of  their  written   argument. It ultimately aims to provide critical thinking for their academic and assignment writing Yang   & Wu, 2012). Various universities round the globe has  a  list  of  question  that  the students  can  utilize  while applying  critical  thinking  techniques to  their  academic writings. It  can  help  in  framing  the  structure of  question  to  promote critical  thinking  required  for  skill  development (Cederblom, 2012).

During  assessing  of critical  thinking  various academic  must  return  to  the point  that  it  needs  certain. For  ensuring  robustness in the  performance  critical  thinking  must  be  taught  to  various  students.  There  are  certain  step  involved  in  critical  thinking  that  are  observing, Analyzing, Evaluating, Questioning, Contextualization  and  Reflection. Observe  stage  mainly  involves  in  gathering  of  a  number  of  resources or  using  resources  from  a  variety of sources. Analyzing stage mainly consist of identifying all the important themes. Evaluation stage mainly focuses on  identification  of  arguments  that  are  needed for  an  opinion  (Nosich, 2012). Questing  stage  mainly  involves  putting  all  the  required  question on the  given   topic. Contextualization  phase  mainly  involves  analysis  and  evaluation  of  the  given  context. Reflect phase mainly consist of   various question that are posted.  Both of the holistic and analytic rubrics are easily accessible for critical thinking.

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Analytic  rubrics  is  generally  considered   as  an  important   parameter  for  enabling a  process which  can  mark  an  easy  access  to  various  parameters  of  critical  thinking  (Nosich, 2012). Various universities round the globe use a list of critical thinking rubrics. Rubrics can be used in various domains of critical like  self  assessment  of  critical  thinking  rubric  and    holistic  critical  thinking  rubric. Critical  thinking  is  generally  considered in setting  priority  of  outcome  to  higher  education  (Nosich, 2012). Critical  thinking  is  considered  to  be    important  factor  for  free  thinking  and  solving  of  problem  in a  better  way   in  both  lives  that  is  professional  and personal. Critical thinking can be considered as an important factor  for  examination  of  issue  by  breaking  a  problem  into  pieces  and  its evaluation  in  a  proper way (Cederblom, 2012). 

Putting  question  with the  answers  to  get  a  clear  idea  about  the  world  around  it  focuses  it  to  critical  thinking.  In various  enquiry  based  instruction  various teacher  put  questions  where student  can  draw  idea  and  conclusion  about  a  topic. Critical  thinking  in  writing  can  be  considered  as  a  new  technique. Writing  critical  thinking  converts  a  student  from   passive  learner  to  active  learner. With  the  help  of  writing  technique  student  can  use  it  to  critically  analyze  various  ingredient  of  critical  thinking (Clifford, 2013) . Employers  from  various organization look for  fresh  college  pass out   who  have sharp  and  good  critical  thinking  techniques  that  must  be applied  to various  vocational  based  region. With  the  help  of  careful   planning  of  task  and  activities, academics  provide a  important  platform  which  is  used for  the  development  of  critical  thinking  techniques in  various students  With  the  help  of  act  of writing  student  can  put  their  focus and  thoughts  before putting  all  their  thoughts  in  their  paper. As  soon as  the  students  are  capable  of  analyzing  that  they  have  read  they  should  start  forming  various  formula  which  is  considered  as  an  important  part  of  their  written   argument.  Writing techniques gives a range of benefits to students. Opportunities  for  a  group  of  people include  decision, case  studies,  task  relate work , reviews  and  various  debate  relate  to  it  (Price & Harrington, 2015). 

Students are generally exposed to   different region for clarification of their ideas. Student response from  various  activities need  thinking  of new  critical  goals  which  are  consider  as  an   important  parameter  for   students  (Parkay, Anctil & Hass, 2014).  It  is  vital  to  put  a  clear  idea  for  evaluation of  critical  thinking. Critical thinking helps in putting student and teacher   towards a common target. It  helps  in  evaluation  of various skills  and  techniques  used  by  various students  and  teacher  from  various industries.   It  helps  in setting  up  of  evidence,  statements,  graphics  and  question  and also  help  in  asking  different  questions,  draw  a  conclusion  from  it  , it  also helps  in  explanation  of  assumption  and  various reasons. It  is  also  important  to  note  that  it  is  an  very  important  tool  required  for  any  course  (Cederblom, 2012).  It is  very  useful  by  students in  any  course  of  action  so  it  can  check  the required criteria  for  it. It  also  helps  in  distribution  of  assignments  that   give freedom  to  students to  receive guidance  from  various  universities  round  the  globe  (Price & Harrington, 2015). .  This  will ultimately improve  the  quality  of  work and it  will ultimately  improve  the  quality  of  their  new  idea  and  writing (Clifford, 2013) .      

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Conclusion

Critical thinking can  be  used  for  addition of  various activity  of  the  scholar.  It  contains  many skills  that  can  be  used  for  development  of  skills  through  time and  experience. Students from  various  universities must  be taken  in  account  in  many  ways  to  facilate  development  of  leaning  outcomes. Employers from various organization look for  fresh college  pass out  who  have sharp  and remarkable   critical  thinking  techniques  and  skills  which   must  be  applied  to  various  vocational  based  activities. Careful planning of task  and  activities  in  academics aims  to  provide a  wonderful  platform that  can be used in  the  updating the critical  thinking  techniques of   various students.  Students can develop it further as a part of professional activities and learning of various lifelong techniques (Clifford, 2013).

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