Mar 11 - In-depth Pre-research: Critical Thinking

Today we will...

1. explain different aspects of critical thinking: summarizing, analyzing, critiquing and synthesizing
2. generate preliminary analysis points of an organization's solutions from the perspective of logic, insight, evidence and critique
3. document all the results in your pre-research portfolio

Critical Thinking

What is critical thinking?
What is difference between critique and criticize?
What does critical thinking have to do with academic paper writing?

How do we think critically?

Analyzing Sources

When you search and read sources for your research paper, what do you need to do?
You need to summarize, analyze, critique and synthesize them so that you can use them to compose your research paper.
How do we analyze sources then? What questions do we need to think about? Here is a list of things you need to consider.

Homework

Continue working on your portfolio. You should be able to finish Chart 1 and Chart 3 now. Even though the exact due date has not been decided yet, it will be sometime before Spring Break.