Promoting Critical Thinking Skills in Students

Promoting Metacognition: Encourage students to examine their ______ processes to enhance their skills.

Assessment and Observation: Estimate students' critical ______ skills through various activities.

Provide feedback to help students improve their critical ______ skills.

Conclusion: Critical thinking is crucial for fostering curiosity in intelligence and intelligent ______-making.

PRE-WRITING PROCESS What is The Pre-writing Process? Pre-writing is the planning process, which consists of determining your purpose and audience, narrowing your topic, and creating a framework for your ______.

Steps in Choosing a Topic: Figure out the relationship/s of the ideas you grouped together. You may use a graphic representation to show how your ideas are related to each other. Examine the ideas that you mapped out and identify which ideas are broad and/or general and which are ______.

Understand Plagiarism: Familiarize yourself with what constitutes plagiarism in your specific ______ (academic, professional, etc.).

Different institutions and industries may have slightly different expectations and ______.

Use Quotation Marks: When directly quoting someone else's work, use quotation marks and provide a proper ______.

Include accurate and complete citations for all ______ you use. This includes books, articles, websites, and any other material.

If you're rephrasing someone else's ideas, do so in your own words and ______ structure.

Maintain a detailed record of all the sources you consult during your ______.

______ is a practice of a group discussion to produce ideas or solve problems.

______ is a strategy that allows you to explore the relationship between ideas.

Who are your readers? What are their interests and how could you relate your topic to their interests? What is their general attitude toward your topic? Do they have beliefs that you may have to consider in writing your paper? Do they have misconceptions and biases that you must address? What are your readers’ expectations from you? The result of your audience analysis will dictate the tone of your paper. The tone refers to the general mood of the essay. If you are writing for an audience who are experts, you must use a formal tone—one that will convey your knowledge and expertise—in order to set the tone that is appropriate for them. On the other hand, if you are addressing an audience who are not familiar with your topic, you have to be informative, and avoid language that will sound intimidating to them. AVOIDING PLAGIARISM What is plagiarism? Plagiarism is deliberate copying of somebody else’s work and claiming that work to be his/her own; Using somebody else’s work or ideas without proper acknowledgement or citation; and Copying the text without paraphrasing it. Avoiding Plagiarism Avoiding plagiarism is essential in academic and professional settings.

What is ______?

Avoiding plagiarism is ______ in academic and professional settings.

______ is a strategy that allows you to explore the relationship between ideas.

The tone refers to the general mood of the ______.