Set essay: Critical Thinking Exercise

 

Critical thinking is crucial skill that we should learn during studying. Today we were looking at Critical Thinking & Writing Document. While thinking critically we should consider those questions: 

Who is telling me this? (vested interests, bias)

What am I not being told?

Where’s the evidence to support this?

How much of this is rhetoric?

How else might you read the same data?

• Looking ahead: what are the implications of this? 

• Why? Who says?

• How does this work? How often? How much?

• How reliable is this information?

• Is this true? Why/why not?

Always look beneath surface; challenge your own thinking:

• What is main point I want to make?

• Can I back up my argument?

• Is my evidence relevant, accurate, up-to-date?

• Is my view based on false premises/false logic?

Now I will be doing exercise and think critically about these statements:

In my opinion statements that can be evidence-based:

- Two out of ten British citizens are Euro-sceptic

- 85% of all cases of lung cancer are caused by smoking

- The deepest part of the ocean is 35,813 feet deep

That is because they include numbers and these facts we can measure. The other one are assertions that the author can simply say it's true without possible evidence.