Day 22 (Oct 15) - In-Depth Pre-research: Critical Thinking

Today we will...

1. Explain different aspects of critical thinking: summarizing, analyzing, critiquing and synthesizing
2. Do some analysis of the points of an organization's solutions on your topic from different perspectives: logic, insight, evidence and critique
3. Add the results of your analysis into your pre-research portfolio

Sample Pre-research Portfolio

Here is a sample pre-research portfolio. You all have to document all your research results in a portfolio like this. Remember, this is 15% of your final grade for this course!

Critical Thinking

What is Critical Thinking? Is it the same as criticizing?

When we do analysis, what do we need to focus on? Let's look at these different LENSES.

Okay, now let's take a look at a sample analysis. Don't be scared...

Hands-on

Now, it's your turn to practice. Please open this excel file and add things into different columns based on your own topics.

Homework

Please send me your gmail accounts so that I can create a folder for each one of you. I will put a pre-research worksheet in it, and you will be editing it toward your final submission of the portfolio.