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My Definition Of Critical Thinking

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In short, this course was very informative and it the most significant learning experience for me was defining critical thinking because I was intimidated by the word critical thinking. For the most part, I knew what the term critical thinking meant because I apply it in my everyday life. However, in our first assignment, I had to read to read define critically thinking several times to get a better understanding. In my own words, I described critical thinking as analyze a subject in more depth, but I learned in our reading assignments that the definition of critical thinking is “define as a set of skills which an individual applies to not only to another person reasoning, but also to one’s own reasoning” (Black, 2012, p. 59).
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In my job, I have to do a lot of power point communication and I take what I learned from the subject and apply it in my presentation at my job. In hindsight, I did majority of previously presentation by being nervous and my preparation was not effective. However, in the text I learned that, there is an art to effective and persuasive speech, psychology also comes into play in terms of creating a presentation that incorporates an understanding of the way that people make up their minds about something (Excelsior College, n.d., para 2). How will you apply what you learned in your future work? Please provide a specific example or scenario. In the future, I’ll be applying new understanding of critical thinking in which will allow me to demonstrate the ability to remember information and apply it. Another significant point was communication in which I had the opportunity to demonstrate my ability in advanced written communication; thirdly, I have a better understanding of recognizing diversity in which will give me a better understanding in communicating with people of different cultures better than I previously did. Finally, the most important topic I’ll be able to use in the future is ethics because I can apply ethics to everything I do and I have a better understanding of why my job or future jobs requires me fill out their forms before I can have my email accounts

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