Homework on Holiday (1/20/2014)

1. Kelsey Diaz never directly mentions critical thinking or habits of mind. What’s a passage (a few sentences – section) from her text that relates to critical thinking / habits of mind? How so?

- The passage: "How often do you read any serious writing that has...Don't do it in college, you professor will most likely laugh at you". I think, this passage present a sence of critical thinking because it didn't say exactly why you shouldn't do this in college, it just give you a trick question and you have to think of an answer to understand the general idea of the situation. Another passage that express the "critical thinking" factor of this piece of writing is "You must analyze the content of your source, not just read it,...you are the one that have to prove what you have learned".

2. Also think back to our discussion about the “thinking” in our sample essay. Yesterday, we said the five-paragraph essay that we examined wasn’t college level, not only because of its structure, but also because of the type of thinking. Why did we say the thinking and subject matter were not college level?

- The subject matter is not at a college level because it is not academic enough to be a college levels. What kind of college levels class would teach you how to prevent ourselves from danger when camping except "Camping Safty Class" or "Camping Medical Class". The topic of a college level writing should contain some critical thinking into it and some what a large scale matter, like "How will this effect the global?". That will engage the college students to use critical thinking more and force them to think criticaly.

3. How have we used critical thinking and habits of mind so far in our class?

- As far as I see, we have used the critical thinking technique to analyze the usefulless of a "Paper clip". Also, we use it to analyze the essay genre and the dos and don'ts in each genres.

 4. What critical questions do you have about the class?

- I just have 1 question about the class. So, we are going to write about college writing through out the whole quarter or the topic will be change depends on the chapter that we are on. That is the only question I want to ask before stepping in the 1st essay