This document defines and discusses critical and analytical thinking. It defines analytical thinking as breaking down complex information into fundamental parts, and critical thinking as carefully evaluating information to make a sound judgment. It discusses the importance of analytical thinking for problem solving, logical reasoning, and decision making. Some key techniques for comprehension include using prior knowledge, predicting, identifying main ideas, questioning, making inferences, and visualizing. It also discusses sentence and phrase fragments, defining them and providing examples and corrections.

1. CRITICAL AND ANALYTICAL THINKING
Unit: 01
Faculty Miss Ghazal Adnan

2. DEFINITIONS
 Analytical Reading:
 Analytical thinking is the mental process of breaking
down complex information and comprehensive data
into fundamental parts of basic principle.
Problem
solving
Logical
reasoning
Decision
making

3. WHY IS ANALYTICAL THINKING IMPORTANT
To articulate & visualize problem
To gather information
To explore facts and possible options
To find a suitable option

6. DEFINITION
Critical thinking:
 It is mental process if carefully evaluating
information and determining how to interpret it in
order to make a sound judgment.

7. COMPREHEND TEXT
Comprehension is the understanding and
interpretation of what is read. To be able to
accurately understand written material, one need to
be able to
 decode what they read
 make connections between what they read and
what they already know
 think deeply about what they have read.
 Deciphering the facts and figures

8. COMPREHENSION TECHNIQUES
 The key comprehension strategies are
described below.
 Using Prior Knowledge/Previewing. ...
 Predicting. ...
 Identifying the Main Idea and Summarization. ...
 Questioning. ...
 Making Inferences. ...
 Visualizing. ...
 Story Maps. ...
 Retelling.

11. SENTENCE FRAGMENTS
 A sentence fragment is a sentence that is missing
either its subject or its main verb.
 Some sentence fragments occur as the result of
simple typographical errors or omission of words.
They can often be avoided with careful
proofreading.
 Incorrect: Went to the store
yesterday.Incorrect:After the classes, the library. My
life nowadays. The first sentence above does not
have a subject, and the second one does not have
a main verb.

12. PHRASE FRAGMENTS
 Incorrect:Since I was done with the exam, I put my
pen and paper down. Waiting for the teacher to
start collecting papers.Unattached phrases must be
made part of a complete sentence. We can join
them either using a comma or a conjunction.
 Correct:Since I was done with the exam, I put my
pen and paper down, waiting for the teacher to start
collecting papers.Correct:I was done with the exam;
I put my pen and paper down and was waiting for
the teacher to start collecting papers.