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ACADEMY OF LANGUAGE STUDIES
BACHELOR IN APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES
(ENGLISH FOR PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION)
CRITICAL THINKING
ALS 410
Assignment 1
LECTURER:
ASSOC.PROF DR. CYNTHIA DOSS
Prepared by:
SALWA BTOTHMAN 2009722947
NADIAH DEWI BT FAIZUL GANAPATHY 2009153603
Critical thinking...the awakening of the intellect to the study of itself.
Critical Thinking defined by Edward Glaser
In a seminal study on critical thinking and education in 1941, Edward Glaser defines critical thinking as follows “The ability to think critically, as conceived in this volume, involves three things: (1) an attitude of being disposed to consider in a thoughtful way the problems and subjects that come within the range of one's experiences, (2) knowledge of the methods of logical inquiry and reasoning, and (3) some skill in applying those methods. Critical thinking calls for a persistent effort to examine any belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the evidence that supports it and the further conclusions to which it tends. It also generally requires ability to recognize problems, to find workable means for meeting those problems, to gather and marshal pertinent information, to recognize unstated assumptions and values, to comprehend and use language with accuracy, clarity, and discrimination, to interpret data, to appraise evidence and evaluate arguments, to recognize the existence (or non-existence) of logical relationships between propositions, to draw warranted conclusions and generalizations, to put to test the conclusions and generalizations at which one arrives, to reconstruct one's patterns of beliefs on the basis of wider experience, and to render accurate judgments about specific things and qualities in everyday life. (Edward M. Glaser, An Experiment in the Development of Critical Thinking, Teacher’s College, Columbia University, 1941).
Critical Thinking defined by Linda Elder, September 2007
Critical thinking is self-guided,...