Personal Reflection Paper

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Week 9 Personal Reflection Paper It has taken this class for me to understand what critical thinking means and how to become a better one. Critical thinking is a type of thinking that questions our assumptions. It helps us decide whether something is always true, sometimes true, partly true, or just plain false. It clarifies goals, looks over assumptions, discerns hidden value, evaluates evidence, accomplishes actions, and assesses conclusions. All of this combined helps us make all of our decision that we make in our everyday life. I have learned many significant things about critical thinking in this class. The main thing is the meaning of critical thinking and the many steps to become a better critical thinker. When I started class I never heard the term critical thinker or critical thinking. I did not know the difference between normal thinking and critical thinking. I also learned that critical thinkers are more skeptical, more opened minded, they respect more evidence and reasoning, respect clarity, and look at different points of view. They look more into the details of an answer then just someone that does not put a lot of thought into something. Critical thinking is a very important part of any decision that we make even in everyday life. This course of critical thinking has me more at putting more thought into something instead of just blurting out an answer. I put more thought into making a decision as to before I did not. I never was much of a critical thinker when it came to thinking harder about something before I made any kind of decision. Now that I understand the difference between the two it will help me in the future to think more about something ahead of time instead of just jumping into something. I revaluated my first week class assignment. My thinking has changed a whole lot since week one. The first week I said I was an

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