How Critical Thinking Can Be Used in Everyday Life Critical thinking is “reacting with systematic evaluation to what you have heard and read” (Browne & Keeley, 2012, p. 2), which “can be used to either defend or evaluate and revise your initial beliefs” (Browne & Keeley, 2012, p. 7). The real question here is, “How do you do that?” Well, critical thinking can be achieved by asking the right questions, using reliable evidence, and evaluating your thinking.
Asking the Right Questions
Information is presented every day, be it from the media, friends, family, co-workers, or educators, there is no getting away from it all. The best course of action to take is to not take it for face-value, to not say, “That makes sense”, or stick with an okay. Instead, use your questioning words like who, …show more content…
This method talks about having a “question-asking attitude” towards everything in life. Learn to analyse and ask questions as well as give knowledgeable opinions—be it disagreeing or agreeing, while giving reasonings of why (Browne & Keeley, 2012). In doing so, a new form of gathering knowledge is available making it not only easier, but more informative in the process.
Use Reliable Evidence
As questions are being asked a bombardment of answers, conclusions, and opinions are being presented and found. But with so many to choose from, how on Earth can anyone sift through all of this and find something useful? By learning the different types of evidence out there and knowing what to look out for.
Browne and Keeley give eight types of evidence: intuition, personal experience, case examples, testimonials, appeals to authorities or experts, personal observation, research studies, and analogies (Browne & Keeley, 2012). Once learned, these different types of evidence can be pointed out in any situation in order to acquire the most beneficial and truthful scoop.
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Asking the Right Questions
Information is presented every day, be it from the media, friends, family, co-workers, or educators, there is no getting away from it all. The best course of action to take is to not take it for face-value, to not say, “That makes sense”, or stick with an okay. Instead, use your questioning words like who, …show more content…
This method talks about having a “question-asking attitude” towards everything in life. Learn to analyse and ask questions as well as give knowledgeable opinions—be it disagreeing or agreeing, while giving reasonings of why (Browne & Keeley, 2012). In doing so, a new form of gathering knowledge is available making it not only easier, but more informative in the process.
Use Reliable Evidence
As questions are being asked a bombardment of answers, conclusions, and opinions are being presented and found. But with so many to choose from, how on Earth can anyone sift through all of this and find something useful? By learning the different types of evidence out there and knowing what to look out for.
Browne and Keeley give eight types of evidence: intuition, personal experience, case examples, testimonials, appeals to authorities or experts, personal observation, research studies, and analogies (Browne & Keeley, 2012). Once learned, these different types of evidence can be pointed out in any situation in order to acquire the most beneficial and truthful scoop.
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