1.Journal:

What is our final project and what do you do?

2. Dicussion

Entry two...

3. Practice...

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing

Use writing and reading for inquiry, learning, thinking, and communicating

(Define)
I use writing to understand new things, figure out things I don’t understand, and to communicate with others.


(Example)
For example, in my journal, the instructor asked me to explain the final project. I wrote that I had some questions when I said, “I don’t know what it looks like, but I’ll figure it out.” in my journal. I also wrote that I understood what the outline of the project was, so I was able to learn what my instructor wanted and try to do it correctly. I wrote, “I know that I’m supposed use the WPA guidelines and follow the order and outline that was provided in class.” This shows that I learned something.
(Conclude)

Since I was able to use writing for learning and for questioning, I am able to use writing for thinking, learning, inquiry and communication, if only with myself in this instance.


• Understand a writing assignment as a series of tasks, including finding, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing appropriate primary and secondary sources
(Define)
This means that I need to understand that some writing assignments need for me to research. I might have to locate, judge, and think about ideas before I include them in my paper. In fact, I better.




(Example)
In my argumentative essay, I argued for reparations. My first task was to research the income gap between minority and white households as, according to Reuters, “a bigger percentage now, after the downfall, as opposed to the sixties.” My second task was to evaluate where this quote came from. To complete my essay, this quote had to be located, judged, thought about, and then put into my essay.

(Conclusion
Since I located, judged, analyzed and put into my essay a thought of another, I am able to understand that writing includes this series of tasks.