Julia's Criticial Thinking

Critical thinking is careful and deliberate determination of whether to accept, reject, or suspend judgment.
Moore and Parker, 1994.
From my experience of creating a hypertext, the process is very careful and deliberate and entails a lot of decision making directly related to judgement.

"The purpose of critical thinking is, therefore, to achieve understanding, evaluate view points, and solve problems. Since all three areas involve the asking of questions, we can say that critical thinking is the questioning or inquiry we engage in when we seek to understand, evaluate, or resolve."
Maiorana, Victor P. Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum: Building the Analytical Classroom. 1992.
As writers, we started with a question or problem and come to a conclusion or solution to that question or problem. I think this process is very helpful and can create a very successful hypertext, or any paper therefore. We also went through the process of achieving understanding, evaluating view points, and problem solving, which was very effective for me.

"Critical thinking includes the ability to respond to material by distinguishing between facts and opinions or personal feelings, judgments and inferences, inductive and deductive arguments, and the objective and subjective. It also includes the ability to generate questions, construct, and recognize the structure of arguments, and adequately support arguments; define, analyze, and devise solutions for problems and issues; sort, organize, classify, correlate, and analyze materials and data; integrate information and see relationships; evaluate information, materials, and data by drawing inferences, arriving at reasonable and informed conclusions, applying understanding and knowledge to new and different problems, developing rational and reasonable interpretations, suspending beliefs and remaining open to new information, methods, cultural systems, values and beliefs and by assimilating information."
MCC General Education Initiative.
For two of our hypertexts, we had to sort of ignore opinion and just go with reason. For our “I Resign” hypertext, it was mainly opinion based. This gave dimension to our ability to learn about the arguments. Organizing materials and data was very important for our hypertexts as well.