Blog 3

By evaluating what critical thinking was I value the fact that critical thinking includes a collection of skills. A few skills include evaluating, analyzing, and interpreting, and it is valuable to use a variety of skills therefore we are not bias thinkers. It was not very difficult to use the variety of skills when dealing with the research topic because we conducted research through different resources and were able to evaluate, analyze, and interpret it to present a new view on a topic. These skills exposed that I have a few flaws in my own thinking. My major weaknesses are that I do not interpret all that I learn and I do not form enough explanations to back up my view. As stated in Facione's article, interpretation is defined as to comprehend and express the meaning of a variety of experiences, situations, data, events, judgments, conventions, beliefs, procedures, or criteria. To overcome the fact that I do not interpret information enough I will try to clarify all information and try to categorize what I learn. On the other hand, an explanation was defined by Facione as "being able to present in a cogent and coherent way the results of one’s reasoning." In order to improve my explanations I should try to look at my idea and come up with multiple reasons how I came to that conclusion.