chapter 8: viewpoints

chapter summary

1. critical thinking means learning to recognize viewpoints and how they shape the content of any message.

2. viewpoints- like assumptions, opinions, and evaluations-can either be consciously or unconsciously assumed.

3. we communicate best when we are aware of our own viewpoints of others as well.

4. writers shape their stories through their choice of a point of view; their choices include third-Person, first-person, and multiple points of view. these w=viewpoints may be omniscient or humanly limited.

5. unconscious viewpoints include the ecogenic, ethnocintric, religiocentric, adrocentric, and anthropocentric.

6. U.S. politics cannot be defined in terms of a simple left-to right spectrum of viewpoints.

7. in alternative periodicals and on the Internet a far wider range of viewpoints is available than on U.S. network television and mainstream.