Assignment: Enhance your critical-thinking skills.
Assignment: Enhance your critical-thinking skills.
Higher-Level Thinking (or Critical Thinking) involves making connections between what you’re trying to learn and what you already know. When you learn something deeply, it is stored in the brain as a link in an interconnected network of brain cells. Critical Thinking requires two distinctively different processes: active engagement and reflection. In this assignment you will be asked to actively read through the Critical Thinking Skills section of Lumen Learning.
Read the following section on Critical Thinking in the Lumen website:
, do you feel you use good critical-thinking strategies? How might you improve as a critical thinker?
SLP Assignment Expectations
Writing
Choose three strategies you can employ to enhance your critical-thinking skills.Complete this assignment in a 6-paragraph essay. Be sure to include an introduction, supporting body and conclusion paragraphs.
Paragragh 1 -The introduction will state the essay purpose and preview the strategies to be covered.
Paragraph 2- Answer the following question in one paragraph: Based on the reading, which critical-thinking strategies will be most useful for you?
Paragraph 3,4, and 5 -Choose three strategies you can employ to enhance your critical-thinking skills. Write a paragraph for each strategy and discuss how you can implement the strategy as you progress through your program at Trident.
Paragraph 6 – The conclusion will summarize the main ideas of your essay.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
