TFYChapter 8-----Viewpoints Summary

Chapter 8-----Viewpoints Summary
Critical thinking means learning to recognize viewpoints and how they shape the content of any message.
Viewpoints ---like assumptions, opinions, and evaluations—can be either conscious or unconscious.
We communicate best when we are aware of our own viewpoint and can understand and respect the viewpoints of other as well.
Writers shape their stories though their choice of a point of view; the choices include third-person, first-person, and multiple points of view.
Unconscious viewpoints include the egocentric, ethnocentric, and religiocentric.
Left, right, and centrist perspectives exit within both the Republican and Democratic parties.
The Internet provides a vehicle for the expression of a wide range of viewpoints not well represented in U S corporate media.
Periodicals can express viewpoints though images, words, and in the framing giving to information.