Personal Reflection Essay

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Personal Reflection Paper By: Tamela Wise Due Date: 7/22/12 Course: HUM/111 Instructor: Kimberly Rhodes Critical thinking is a deeper thought about thinking. It is also the ability to think clearly and rationally about something. When you are critical thinking, you are more able to reflect on things with independent thinking. Critical thinking requires a person to put more effort into thinking about a solution or an answer to what a person is thinking about. This process of thinking also requires that a person gather more information, and put more thought into thinking. The three most significant things that I learned about critical thinking in this class was that first, in order to become a critical thinker, I must first be able to be an active listener. I did not know that being able to listen well to details so that I will have the right information was important to my critical thinking process. I also learned that critical thinking is a learned process and not something that you automatically do. A person has to teach and train themselves to become a good or even great critical thinker. And last, but not least, I learned that there are stage of critical thinking that you go though. Not everyone will be on the same stage of critical thinking. You will have to figure out what stage of critical thinking you are at, and work at advancing to the next stages until you become a “master thinker.” After I reevaluated my stage of critical thinking from Week One when I had placed myself at Stage Two: The Challenged Thinker, I personally think that I am just beginning to transition into Stage Three: The Beginning Thinker. My reason for stating this is because I have

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