Critical thinking is not an easy process to define. One source I found interesting states that "Critical thinking is the general term given to a wide range of cognitive skills and intellectual dispositions needed to effectively identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments and truth claims, to discover and overcome personal prejudices and biases, to formulate and present convincing reasons in support of conclusions, and to make reasonable, intelligent decisions about what to believe and what to do." (Bassham, Irwin, Nardone, and Wallace, 2002) While doing the research for this paper, I have fo…
