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• Why did you choose this profession?

• Why did you choose your particular institution?
• What were your other options?
• Why did you decide against them?
• Why did you choose now rather than earlier or later in your life?
• What sources of information did you use when deciding?
• Did you conclude these sources were all of equal value?
• From whom did you seek advice?
• Whose advice did you find the most useful and why?
Why do you need this lecture?
• Because you feel you already have some of the skills but you would
like to refine and improve them?
• Because your lecturers continually emphasize the importance of
taking a critical approach?
• Because it is regularly mentioned in the feedback you receive?
• Because you don’t really understand what people are talking about
when they suggest the need to be critical?
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• Applying guidelines
• Linking theory to practice
• Keeping up to date with research
• Contribute to the body of knowledge
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Rating your current abilities
• How do you rate yourself as a critical thinker?
• Have you ever thought about it before?
• Do you consider yourself to be rational?
• Do you tend to win arguments or debates?
• Can you convince others of the correctness of your point of view?