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“Opening Your Mind”
Opening your mind to critically think better said than done. In this paper you will learn how to open your mind to critical thinking in college. There will be steps and guides and example to show you it’s not as hard as it seems. I myself will be giving ideas on how you can approach the way you critically think, as well as the concepts of professional writers and there writings such as Mortimer J. Adler’s “How to Mark a Book” and Jennifer Lee’s “I Think,Therefore IM”.
Critical thinking in college there are many ways you can approach critical thinking in college but what is the most effective way for you. To begin this process you first need to know what you’re learning style is. Ask yourself are you a Visual learner, Auditory learner, or are you Tactile/Kinesthetic type of learner? If you are a Visual learner you tend to draw pictures, or as you read a text you play them out in your mind. If you are Auditory learner you tend to have an internal conversation to get a better understanding of the text .You’re not afraid to read aloud and you find ways to talk through the information. If you are a Tactile/Kinesthetic learner you tend to mark interest points of your text to get a better understanding of what you’re reading. Then you have the learners who use a little from each of these styles. I’m one of these learners I have to see something done, hear how it’s done and I have to take notes or draw out a pictures. So the steps I take to critically think are as followed I read the text, I plan out the writing, and I revise my writing.
When I put critical thinking and reading together the first thing that comes to mind is annotation I tend to read my text twice. First to see what the text is about. Second to time t...

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...re I like to start with reading the text a few times just to get a better understanding of it this can prepare you for the planned writing. Planned writing helps point out the main points of interest .It gives you a foundation to write from. Which brings me to the final step revising helps a lot only because it gives you the opportunity to hear others opinions on what you wrote as well as you yourself reading and finding things you said in your mind but didn’t put them on paper. You use your brain every day to think so why not use your brain every day to critically think.

Works Cited

Adler, Mortimer J., Ph.d. "How to Mark a Book." Saturday Review of Literature: 25th Anniversary. New York: Saturday Review Assocs., 1941. N. pag. Print.

Lee, Jennfier. "I Think,Therefore IM." www.nytimes.com. N.p., 19 Sept. 2002. Web. 11 Feb. 2014. .Web.

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