critical reading

Reading

I complete reading for my easiest class first – NO
I currently use the reading plan – NO
I use different reading strategies to help read more efficiently – YES
I know what the best time study are – YES
Each day I complete the reading to my favorite classes and fit reading for my other classes later – NO
Each day I make a list of reading tasks that I need to do – NO
I save time by taking regular breaks when I read – YES
It takes too long to read a chapter – NO
Sticking to a schedule seems too rigid for me; I’m too spontaneous to stick to a regular reading plan –NO
Speed reading is the best strategy for reading effectively – NO

Effective reading can be define as being able to read and comprehend textbook material in appropriate time for me. To become more effective reader you need to judge your reading rate against your prior reading experience and to use other students reading rates only to help you to set appropriate reading goals for yourself. 300 words a minute when you reading for pleasure.
Speed reading consists of visually grouping words together, reading them in chunks instead of separately. Critical reading slow down, takes time to digest an author’s points relate the newly learn information to previous knowledge on the subject, and think about what you are reading.
Types of reading: reading quickly, skimming (only some words on the page), reading or regressing (when you didn’t understand author’s point; use dictionary and read once more), subvocalizing (reading aloud), pacing (reading with using your finger tips).
Comprehension should be your main reading goal, not how fast you read. Choose time to study based on when you are most alert. Track your reading rate so you can create daily reading plans that set realistic goals.

chapter 6

Communication

Use language: it operates at two levels: the logical level (for proposals or offer) and pragmatic (syntax style and semantics).
Use the non verbal communication: make eye contact, adjust body position, nonverbal discourage or encourage what the others say.
Information about alternatives, information about outcomes, social accounts – type of communication that occurs during negotiation consists of the “social accounts” that negotiator use to explain things, communication about process. More information is not always better.
Communication types: passive listening, acknowledgment – more active type than passive listening, when acknowledging receive information maintain eyes contact or interject responses, active listening
Role of reversal – allow negotiator to understand of other party’s perspective, frame, or reference.Special communication considerations at the close of negotiation: avoiding fatal mistake (framing, gathering intelligence, coming to conclusions, learning from feedback), achieving closure.

observing cube

WHAT HAPPANES TO THE CUBE WHEN YOU OBSERVE IT?

A cube became more flat.

HOW DOES OBSERVING FEEL AS YOU DO IT?

I was trying to turn on my imagination but nothing happenes.

inferences

Chapter 4

The word infer means to derive by reasoning, to conclude, to guess. When we infer we use imagination and reasoning to provide explanation for situation in which all the facts are either not available or not determined.
Responsible report writing or descriptive writing lets the facts think themselves as much as possible. Writing that offers specific detailed support for its conclusions makes interesting writing. When we perceive and think clearly we interests both ourselves and others. Responsible inference can be used in descriptive writing to tie facts together. Care must be taken to distinguish facts from inferences nevertheless.
In solving problems inferences can be used as a strategy in planning and choosing alternatives. When we think well we assess all facts derive as many inferences as we can and devise strategies for confirming or obtaining more information. Detectives and consultant of all kind are valued for their ability to examine facts and make the best inferences from them.
Inferences tend to build on inferences in chains of associations. Unless each inference is tested for its support of evidence, a service of inferences can mislead us into flights of imagination, away from reliable knowledge. Facts and inferences are linked together through generalizations. Facts have little significance in themselves until generalizations or laws can be derived from them. The topic sense of paragraph is a generalization that summarize the main idea to be to be demonstrated in the paragraph. When we think we usually arrive at this generalization last, after we have examined all our facts and inferences.

What do I stand for as a foundation of critical thinking?

What do I stand for as a foundation of critical thinking?
Critical thinking – is thinking that analyzes thought, assesses thought, and because that transforms thought for the better.

What upsets me about critical thinking?
I didn’t understand this question. Upsets in the subject or in my critical thinking?

What do I love about critical thinking?
Critical thinking helps a lot to understand your own problems with thinking and understanding the subject you talking about, improve your communicational skills, help you in study and permit to develop more deep understanding of assigned problem.

What do I feel about critical thinking?
Critical thinking provides the conceptual tools for understanding how the mind functions (in its pursuit of meaning and truth).

What do I hear about critical thinking?
I hear critical thinking helps a lot in study education and future career.

What do I see about critical thinking?
I see behaviour of different people in different life situations, and it helps me to make my own decisions. And also I’m reading a lot.

What do I think about critical thinking?
I think that I will become more successful in study and in a future life if I will go deep into critical thinking problems. I will think I will feel myself more confident in conversations and it will be easier to make hard decisions.