Critical Thinking

Reflection paper

Zhamalbekova Nargiza


Reading

People have many ways to get information and become more competent in something: watching TV, listening radio, reading… For my opinion, the most advantageous way is reading. Because when, how much and what to read depends on your decision, while you can’t stop programs on TV or radio in inappropriate time for you.

I think that reading gives many opportunities for personal development. One of these opportunities is gathering information. But when you use in real life information which you read or make useful advices to your habits- information becomes knowledge. Knowledge gives you chance to change something in you life to positive side. For example, you are reading a book in foreign language and you like it. After reading several chapters, you can use in you conversational speech new worlds or phrases which you found in the book. After using these new worlds several times, you will remember them easily and forever, the consequence is improvement of your vocabulary. This tip is my habit in reading, which makes my readings beneficial and gives me strong motivations to read more and more.

Another positive influence of reading is improvement of your memory skills. I noticed this effect when I wanted to share ideas from the book with my friend. Of course, at first time I gave half of what I read, but after some practice I could gave full information, even with comma which was stressed with pause in my speech. Now I remember some information without effort from my side, because my memory does this work for me. For my opinion, in order to be successful in our profession, we should have good memory and be aware about changes, new information and so on. And reading helps to get info and improve memory skills. Beside memory improvement, reading increases attentiveness. During reading stories I noticed that I was asking myself: “Why this person behaves in such way? What can happen with him if he does this?” I was asking such questions unconsciously and analyzing those situations almost every time after reading books. Now I do analyzing consciously and always, because ability to think and reasoning improves my logic, my ability to discuss and explain. I am very glad that I am familiar with such tips, because now I try to analyze my own actions and motivation of people who surround me.

Before writing this paper I knew about importance of reading, but during writing I had a chance to see deeper the advantages of reading and it influence to my life. Thanks to the lessons of Critical thinking which showed the ways of improving reading skills and helped to realize me again that reading skills is necessary in our life.