"Diving in Deeper": Bringing Basic Writers' Thinking to the Surface

Autor/in	Smith, Cheryl Hogue
Titel	"Diving in Deeper": Bringing Basic Writers' Thinking to the Surface
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 53 (2010) 8, S.668-676 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1081-3004
DOI	10.1598/JAAL.53.8.5
Schlagwörter	College Instruction; Critical Thinking; Writing Instruction; Thinking Skills; College Students; Skill Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschullehre; Kritisches Denken; Schreibunterricht; Denkfähigkeit; Collegestudent; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung
Abstract	This essay examines the problem of defining critical thinking and demonstrates how critical thinking is less a determinable process or set of procedures than a constellation of attitudes, habits of mind, role relations, and participation motives. It demonstrates further why college instruction in critical thinking in composition classes--particularly for basic writers--needs to be focused not on a set of discrete skills for thinking but on helping students to take on the roles and identities of persons who are critical thinkers. It then presents and unpacks the paradoxical fact that basic writers among all college students are often the ones who in their courses must, out of necessity, exercise the highest levels of critical thinking. It concludes with two student samples that show students' thinking about their thinking. (Contains 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10