Summary: Stopping Adult Illiteracy

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People can learn to be a critical thinker. It is not a natural process. Critical thinking is using judgement to position logical understanding and actions to events. Critical thinking requires willingness and a disposition to engage. Also, background knowledge is a precondition factor for critical thinking. Critical thinking is difficult to defined related to the overlapping terms, concepts, and theories used by educators, lawyers, doctors, and politics. Illiteracy contributes to poor critical thinking because it reduces opportunity to process information limiting meaning. Opportunity is defined as a set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something. Illiteracy is the inability to read and write base on a standard. According to article “Common Misconceptions of Critical Thinking” by Bailin, Case, Coombs, …show more content…

Summarize the content and explain why you think it demonstrates the absence of good, critical thinking skills.
Article: Sticht, T. G. (2003). Stopping adult illiteracy at the source. Reading Today, (3),
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Sticht (2004) writes an article “Stopping Adult Illiteracy at the Source” as a popular source. The article is used to bring awareness to the concern of adult illiteracy. Popular sources are used to inform or entertain their audience. The article is set up as questions and answer to the main idea of adult illiteracy.
Sticht (2004) did not use critical thinking is the article because of the lack of problem solving skills, evaluation, and interpretation on the main idea. The audience must want to engage in critical thinking verse the author using critical thinking. The author did not used concept or theories to explain or defined problems or solutions. For example, their is no data evaluate, no hypothesis being tested, and no references, no claims. Research is minimal with the

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