Sidney
Rogers
Read in College
Kathleen McCormick
The general point made by Kathleen
McCormick in her work A Method For Reading, Writing and Thinking Critically is
that there are two ways to think, historically and culturally.
More specifically, McCormick suggests that
that they both have a lot to do with each other and closely intertwine with the
way we think about thing every day. She
writes, “Critical thinking involves knowledgeable speculation is which you move
back and forth between discovering difference and finding points of
connection.” (Page 22) In this passage,
McCormick is suggesting that everyone uses these critical thinking tools. In
conclusion, it is McCormick belief that that in order to think critically you
must not only completely understand by analyzing but you must also look into
the past and compare it to the future to get answers.
Planning your own argument
In my view McCormick is right because in order
to analyze something I have noticed you have to be able to compare it to
something else and learn from past experiences. Just like the historical
analyzing she talked about. For example how she talked about girls wearing
pants. It doesn’t seem that weird to us now because I grew up in a time where
that’s normal, but when we look back one hundred years things have changed a
lot. Without looking back into the past we never know who women now wear pants,
although McCormick might object that not everyone does this. I maintain that
not everyone uses this form of critical thinking on a regular basis. Therefore,
I conclude that, even if people do not notice it, they still analyze situations
and critically think about a topic multiple times in their life, which I
believe requires all that McCormick was talking about.
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