critical thinking/ text development and context

• Critical thinking


  • The skill to think rationally and clearly at given situations
  • The ability to independently think and reflect on thoughts that will lead to a deeper understanding
• If you enhance your critical thinking skills


  You will be able to see the connection between different ideas and relate those ideas to other ideas
• Intertextuality/ Intertext


  • A literary device that shapes the meaning of a text by another text
  • It creates relationships from different texts
  • It presents relative understanding between separate written works
• Obligatory - the author deliberately shows a relationship, representation, or comparison between texts
• Hypertext


  • A system that consists of intertextualities
  • It emphasizes intertextuality better than the limited resource and explanation from a leather bound book
• Textual evidence


  The pieces of evidence that support your thesis
• Claim


  • The main argument of the written text
  • It is the statement that persuades the readers to accept your idea
• Counterclaim


  • It provides an opposing view of the main claim of the text
  • Providing this will make the reader realize that your thesis is the best choice
• the writer must explain all his claims and counterclaims from beginning to end
• Optional - it will lead you to find connection or neglect the connection between different texts
• Accidental - a reader sees connection but the author doesn't have an intention to do so
• Understand factual connections between ideas from a written text ( skill honed )
• Identify, create, and evaluate arguments presented by the author ( skill honed )
• Evaluate and reflect your own justification derived from your own values and beliefs ( skill honed )
• Pick out inconsistencies and mistakes in reasoning from the text ( skill honed )