Critical thinking

            Reading and understanding what is being read are two things that come up everywhere, whether it is in class or in the workplace. Being able to understand what has been given to you is important. Also, being able to take meaning from what that has been given to you. This also includes confidence in understanding.

            Confidence in understanding is a huge thing to try to master. Being able to put a meaning to a bunch of words that has been put before you can be even harder still. Though it seems tough to handle, it is not all out difficult. It just needs to be practiced and used repeatedly so that a person can have the confidence to understand what has been put before them. Being able to take a meaning from a text includes being able to back up what we are think the meaning may be from examples in the text. Doing this was a large part of the class.

            Being able to back up our opinions from the text makes us much more knowledgeable about what we are saying in the first place. Taking examples from the text makes us look deeper and more critically at the text and learn something from the text. This takes a lot of practice and hard work at first but does get easier as time goes on. This is also something that we can use either out in the workplace or even in other classes. We can use this to our advantage in other classes because we will know the different ways of getting to the deeper meaning about a text.