Q.1. What do you mean by Critical Thinking? Explain.

Answer:

Critical writing involves considering evidence to make reasoned conclusions. A

mistake many beginning writers make is to use only one source to support their
ideas (or, worse, no sources at all).

Q.2. What do you understand by the term Scanning? Explain.

Answer:

Scanning involves getting your eyes to quickly move across sentence and is used to get
just a simple piece of information. Interestingly, research has concluded that reading off
a computer screen actually inhibits the pathways to effective scanning and thus, reading
of paper is far more conducive to speedy comprehension of texts.

Q.3. Explain the following line:

“Critical Readers Do not Read Alone and in Silence”

Answer:

This means the critical readers are speak loudly because of concentration the passage
and the get the point about the passage what they read. They do not read just alone but
as well as to get the logic and meaning of the passage that s why they read not in silence
as well as alone. By loudly they focus on the reading and get the idea and meaning of
the passage.

Q.4. What do you mean by the term “Claim”? Explain.

Answer:
  The claim is the concluding statement that answers the original focus question or
problem.
 The claim is usually one to two sentences in length
 It must be accurate specific and completely answer the question or problem.

Q.5. When is an argument valid?

Answer:

An argument is valid if and only if there is no logically possible situation in which the
premises are true and the conclusion is false.

Q.6. Explain the following Statement:

Answer:

Q.7. What do you understand by Intensive Reading? Explain.

Answer:

You need to have your aims clear in mind when undertaking intensive reading.
Remember this is going to be far more time consuming than scanning or skimming. If
you need to list the chronology of events in a long passage, you will need to read it
intensively. This type of reading has indeed beneficial to language learners as it helps
them understand vocabulary by deducing the meaning of words in context. It moreover,
helps with retention of information for long time and knowledge resulting from
intensive reading persists in your long term memory.

Q.8. How will you check the writer’s claim or thesis while analyzing an argument?
Answer:

 What claim is being asserted?

 What assumptions are being made — and are they acceptable?
 Are important terms satisfactorily defined?

Q.9. In order to check what support (evidence) is offered on behalf of the claim,
which questions you should ask yourself?

Answer:

 Are the examples relevant, and are they convincing?

 Are the statistics (if any) relevant, accurate, and complete?
 Do they allow only the interpretation that is offered in the argument?
 If authorities are cited, are they indeed authorities on this topic, and can they be
regarded as impartial?
 Is the logic — deductive and inductive — valid?
 If there is an appeal to emotion — for instance, if satire is used to ridicule the
opposing view — is this appeal acceptable?

Q.10. Explain the term ‘Refutation.’

Answer:

 Refutation (or rebuttal) explains why the ideas in the concession are not as good
as the opinions in your confirmation
 If you refute the strongest opposing idea convincingly you will persuade the
reader to agree with you
 Use clear topic sentences and transition signals to guide the reader
 Always think of why the reader should not believe or accept this idea