Evalutaion Of Critical Thinking

The critical thinking definitions that most apply to my writing of the hypertext essays are those by Simon and Kapplar, Victor Mairoana, and Lindzey, Hall, and Thompson. Simon and Kapplar says that critical thinking is the "formation of logical inferences." I believe this goes along with the creation of a hypertext because a hypertext must be entirely interconnected while at the same time being connected with the world outside of it as well. Points must move in a logical order, yet allow the reader to see how the second to last page is connected to the third page of the site and allow him or her to jump around while still maintaining the same thesis. Victor Mairoana said that we use critical thinking to "achieve understanding, evaluate view points, and solve problems," and I think this also applies to the hypertexts that we have learned how to write. We use the websites to not only learn about a subject by ourselves, but to also formulate our own opinion and try to help the visitors to our site try to understand the problem as well. The hypertext also allows us to link to a worldwide community in order to promote a global understanding a a more unified effort of solving problems. Lastly, Lindzey, Hall, and Thompson say that critical thinking is the "examination and testing of suggested solutions to see whether they will work." This works both with the design of the website and the content. We struggle as authors of hypertexts to find variations of both design and content of our websites in order to both capture the reader's attention and at the same time try to allow them to hear a clear argument. This process of trial and error allows us to create wonderful projects that are clearly thought out and that will hopefully make a difference to the world, or at least the reader.