“Open your mind” Open your mind to think critically, better said than done. In this article, you will learn how to open your mind to critical thinking in college. There will be steps, guides and examples to show you that it's not as difficult as it seems. I'll give some ideas myself on how you can approach your thinking critically, as well as concepts from professional writers and their writings such as Mortimer J. Adler's "How to Score a Book" and "I Think , therefore I am" by Jennifer Lee. ". Critical Thinking in College. There are many ways to approach critical thinking in college, but what is the most effective way for you. To begin this process, you first need to know what your learning style Ask yourself if you are a visual learner, an auditory learner, or a tactile/kinesthetic type of learner If you are a visual learner, do you tend to draw pictures or, when reading text, do you? play them in your mind If you are an auditory learner, you tend to have an internal conversation to better understand the text You are not afraid to read aloud and you find ways to talk through the information. If you are a tactile/kinesthetic learner, you tend to mark points of interest in your text to better understand what you are reading. Then you have the learners who use a little of each of these styles. learners. I have to see something being done, hear how it's done and I have to take notes or draw pictures. So, the steps I take to think critically are: I read the text, I plan the writing, and I revise my writing. When I put critical thinking and reading together, the first thing that comes to mind is annotation. I tend to read my text message twice. First to see what the text is about. Second time middle of paper......re I like to start by reading the text a few times just to understand it better, this can prepare you for the intended writing. Planned writing helps emphasize key points of interest. It gives you a basis on which to write. Which brings me to the last step, revising helps a lot purely because it gives you the opportunity to hear other people's opinions on what you have written as well as read and find things yourself that you you said in your mind but didn't put them on paper. You use your brain every day to think, so why not use your brain every day to think critically. Works CitedAdler, Mortimer J., Ph.d. “How to Mark a Book.” Saturday Literature Review: 25th Anniversary. New York: Saturday Review Assoc., 1941. N. pag. Print.Lee, Jennfier. “I think, therefore I am.” www.nytimes.com. Np, September 19, 2002. Web. February 11, 2014. .Web.