I read all the Paul and Elder prompts from pages 22 to 36 in the book called Criticle & Creative Thinking. The prompt that I agree mostly on is the first prompt from pages 22 to 25 called elements of thought, the reason why is all the explanations in the prompt I think are all correct and really good to follow because if you follow these rules will succeed a lot of things in your schooling life. When your going to be an effective thinker, there are a lot of things to do, such as you really have to go beyond your thinking, really need to apply many different standards in your writing to asses your thinking. There is another name for these rules, it is called the Intelluctual Standards. "The Intelluctual Standars of precision derives from the fact that we can often need details and specifics to accomplish on our purpose". (paul and elder 23)
When you write a paper you have to think about using the elements, such as what is the purpose, goal, or end in a view, have questions along the way about the issues that you have confronted with, point of view or frame of reference about what you are really trying to talk about, all the implications that you will use so it will show others where you reasonings are taking you. There are many more to follow, also when I read this prompt it really made me think about the fact that I could use these points for all my writings. When I read this I had a moment of joy in my head, because I am really glad that I read this book because the information about intellectual standars is really going to help me on all my writings. It will get me a good grade if I follow these points because this sais almost everything you need for an essay. "Intellectual Standards are also based on following, clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, significance and fairness."(paul and elder 24) You will also being needing to follow these points, not just in schooling, but also out in life in what you are trying to do. To try to get the teacher to like your writing not yourself, because your not the one grading the paper. To go beyond the point of your topic, get a lot of explainations, by breaking down a lot of facts and ideas about your topic. I have one question about this prompt and it is, what is breadth? All through high school I never heard a teacher once say that till now.
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It's very true about that you'll need these skills out in life not just schooling. Life can be complicated, but if you know how to arrange your thoughts and way of thinking, life can be simple.
ReplyDeleteindeed,critical thinkint skills is mandatory for us because we need to be able to think out of the box. You are right when you said that the skills applies to our lives because what if we're in a situation and we need to get out? Critical thinking skills would help largely because it makes it easier and unique for us.
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