-Critical thinking is also referred to as higher-order thinking. Critical thinking is a purposeful, structured and disciplined mode of seeking out and processing information.
-It is important in research applications because it allows a researcher to identify, acquire and analyze the information necessary to resolve a research question. A lack of critical thinking skills leaves a scholar with a mountain of indecipherable information.
-Critical thinking in applications means becoming information literate. Critical thinkers know where to look for information, how to synthesize it and use it to solve problems. Becoming information literate means becoming an informed consumer of information.
-Critical thinking is crucial to all stages of research applications. The first step in research is identifying the question. Without using critical thinking to develop a research question on crime, a scholar would be directionless in where to start looking for information.
Disciplined and purposeful thinking guides the researcher to useful information sources.
-Critical thinking allows a researcher to compile information into a report presenting his unique answer to the question using the research information to support the answer. If the scholar concludes the decline was related to a decrease in gang activity, he would provide statistical data and other research in a logical and informed fashion so the reader concludes there is a relationship.
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