Process Of Critical Thinking

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My process of think this term have been pretty average for its abilities. Coming up with my own original ideas are of my strongest components to my thinking. The reason I think my process of think this term have been pretty average is do to the amount of work and skiing caused my brain to be thinking about to so many things I could not complete my thoughts. Although I didn’t find myself not able to complete my ideas often, I do hope to improve this. My ideas for improving these incomplete ideas are not letting myself stress out about everything so much and just think about each assignment at a time. I think this will help me because if I focus on one assignment at a time, other assignments will not be interrupting my ideas on the
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One of the first things I need to do is commit more time to the reading assignments. As I look back now I should have definitely given myself more time to read the book My eyes were watching god, by Zora Neale Hurston. Since I read the book so fast I only picked up on the big ideas and not the details. When I had to start writing I found that only getting the big ideas made it very difficult to write with detail. My goal is for every book we have assigned for me to finish before it is due leaving me time to go back and figure out anything I didn’t understand. The steps to get to that goal are looking ahead in my calender, getting the book on tape, and starting it before it’s do by two weeks. By those steps I should have enough time to allow me to get the reading done and have good understand of the book. Compared to the fall I have actually made a lot of improvements in my active reading. Last term at finals week I had to do all of the active readings for the term. This year I got all of the active readings in before they were do for the The Great Gatsby and My Eyes Were Watching God. Although when it came time to do the active reading for poems I did fall behind a little but was able to catch back up with them fairly fast. For next term my goal is to be able to get all active reading done on time and not just the ones in the first half of the term. The way I will do this is make sure to finish the active …show more content…
But what sometime takes this confidence away from me is my skills of reading out loud off a piece of paper. Whenever I read outloud I start to stutter and get stuck up on words. I think it might have something to do with reading in front of people off a piece of paper. When I go off the top of my head I am able to speak with confidence and not messup. I think my third oral presentation showed my best one I have do yet not only because of the grade but because I have done it a couple times I know what it’s like already. The way I hope to fix my problem when reading out load is practicing it out loud so many times I have it in my head so I can have the confidence I have when speaking of the top of my head. My goal hopefully being able to speak off the top of my head and on a piece of paper with confidence and not

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