Critical Thinking

1. MCC General Education Initiatives
2. Maiorana, Victor P. Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum: Building the Analytical Classroom. 1992.
3. Kurland, Daniel J. I Know What It Says . . . What does it Mean? 1995.


I believe the MCC General Education Initiatives' definition of critical thinking is most suitable for our hypertext essays because he states that it, "includes the ability to respond to material by distinguishing between facts and opinions or personal feelings". Although we utilized a series of scholarly articles/journals as well as books for our research, we also rely on information gathered by the internet. This information may contain a lot of bias, which could shift our standpoint on a certain subject. In addition, they believe that critical thinking requires us to, "sort, organize, classify, correlate, and analyze materials and data; integrate information and see relationships". In our hypertext essays, we spread our essays over multiple pages, yet, they are all related. What we are doing when we are generating our websites is sorting information into specific subjects, while correlating them by using links.
The next suitable definition is Maiorana's because she states that critical thinking requires us to, "achieve understanding, evaluate view points, and solve problems". This is very similar to the MCC definition because, once again, we are researching while questioning the credibility of our resources to make sure certain biases/prejudices do not alter our judgment. The final process of critical thinking is formulating our own conclusion/solution based on our research.