Critical Thinking

1)Maiorana, Victor P.
2)Paul, Binker, Adamson, Martin
3)MCC General Education Initiatives

I believe that critical thinking is a process of asking questions before setting out on research. Critical thinking is an effort to understand what you are researching in a broad sense while being specific in your inquires. This is why I liked Victor Maiorana's interpretation. Specific and broad critical thinking, therefore, involves much more than taking in information and regurgitating it. For example, it involves thinking about your preconceived notions about a subject before you even begin researching. This is why I liked Paul, Binker, Adamson and Martin's interpretation. Critical thinking involves recognizing different thought patterns that emerge from engaging in different activities. The MCC interpretation embodies the initial two interpretations because it stresses the idea of thought organization. Critical thinking has to have some sort of structure to it to truly be effective. It also asserts the notion that critical thinking is truly "critical".