Annotated Bibliography & Article Comparison-Sample for Students

Question: Compare the two articles. You should Compare and Contrast various ideas expressed in the articles and evaluate which article is more relevant or helpful to understanding the essay topic and why. Answer: Critical reading, critical thinking: Delicate scaffolding in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) - ScienceDirect. (2017).Sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 16 August 2017, from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871187116301365 According to the article, Critical thinking includes evaluation of factual evidence or skeptic, rational and unbiased analysis of evidence. In the current generation, the ability to critically analyzing an argument is uttermost important. To dissect thesis and reasons, structure and components is very important. The ability to be malleable and considering both traditional and non-traditional perspectives and alternatives is the path allowing critical thinking. According to the article one needs to become disciplined, directed, corrective thinker and monitored, giving assent to volatile standard. Raising Vital Problems and Questions and Formulating them Precisely and Clearly such as Students should understand thoroughly the requirement of the subject, how the subject will be taught and the role he/she have to play in the class. Student should ask about marking policies and should seek advice about what and how to prepare themselves for class. Assess and Gather Information, Interpret I nformation for that student should aim to be active learner, innovate new ideas and gather knowledge to implement it into thinking through active writing, examining, listening and interacting. Come to Reasoned about Solutions and Conclusions, Test Them against Relevant Standard and Criteria in order to do that students should look for connection and correlation, avoid learning like a parrot; instead, the approach should be like a detective operating implication into new learning with old. Adopt Point Of View Of The Discipline then Recognize and Assess it so that student think themselves as one of the team member, practicing thinking elucidated by the instructors. Bahr, N. 2017.International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.Digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu. Retrieved 16 August 2017, from https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1229context=ij-sotl According to Bahr Occurrence of thought in human being comes from within and across, domains and disciplines of experience and knowledge, though only few students can cultivate the art of critical thinking. Probing mind, can master variety forms of education and questions, by self commanding tools about learning and intellectual dedication. Communicate Effectively with Others by routinely asking question, discussing matter and rationally think about the topic alone with fellow students, it will give birth to new points of discussion and constructive criticism. Relate Learning in a subject to an Extent it resembles Significance in Life for that student should try to figure content relation at any time possible just to understand problems, issues in rational situations in day-to-day lives. Student if find it hard to connect it with life, than he/she do not know it. To conclude both the journal says to give the students complex material or to give students contrary information so that it will indulge them to think it through, to make their way (McPeck, 2016).It is important for the student to analyze the given situation on basis of their intellectual abilities. It will create the room for discussion, constructive criticism, new ideology and unique perspective to work upon. It will build character and create openness to rejection, it will make students evaluate things both logically and reasonably, which is important in students viewpoint for their overall thinking critically ability. The Science direct article however has an elaborate discussion on the implementation of different ways of critical thinking in the education system (Moore, 2013). It also has an elongated overview about how High School students need to mould critical thinking in their approach to learning. However according to Bahrs article human mind plays a vital role in critical communication, the implementation and the reasoning of human brain. However, both the article begs to differ on the approach one should accumulate, but the zest on the overall understanding and learning remains same (Halpern, 2014). Both the journal says teaching of thinking critically is very important because it define the state of the nation. In democracy, to live soundly citizen should critically think to make well and profound decisions for civic, professional, and personal affairs. Students caliber of critically thinking over an issue, shows that they are matured enough to use strategic thinking as a way to live life reasonably and prolifically (Jackson, 2015) References Bahr, N. (2017).International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.Digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu. Retrieved 16 August 2017, from https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1229context=ij-sotl Critical reading, critical thinking: Delicate scaffolding in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) - ScienceDirect. (2017).Sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 16 August 2017, from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871187116301365 Halpern, D. F. (2014).Critical thinking across the curriculum: A brief edition of thought knowledge. Routledge. Jackson, S. L. (2015).Research methods and statistics: A critical thinking approach. Cengage Learning. McPeck, J. E. (2016).Critical thinking and education. Routledge. Moore, T. (2013). Critical thinking: Seven definitions in search of a concept.Studies in Higher Education,38(4), 506-522.