Critical Thinking Blog #3

Critical reading is gaining insights and understanding that go beyond comprehending the topic, main idea, and supporting details. The difference between reading a text and critically thinking about the text is that while you are critically thinking you read “in between” the lines instead of just reading and comprehending the text. When you critically think you go above and beyond what the text says and make your own judgments about what the author’s questions, purpose, assumptions, and perspectives are. Alongside critical reading, there is critical listening. Critical listening is listening to evaluate a message for purposes of accepting or rejecting it. The difference between critical listening and listening to a lecture in class is big. While critical listening you take the information given and put a lot of thought into it in order to agree or disagree. Listening to a lecture in class you either tune out or just listen and agree with the speaker, not putting much thought into what you are hearing. In all the texts a person reads and lectures a person listens to is it always necessary to critically read and listen?