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However, it remains the responsibility of University Communication Centers, UCC, otherwise known as Speaking Centers, to aid in the competency with which students approach their public speaking assignments and materials. Set apart from other disciplines, Communication Studies requires its students to engage in public speaking performances in which they have a personal stake, a step of selfdisclosure that many students approach with apprehension and defensiveness.  \nPeer and near-peer tutoring, or consulting, services provided through UCCs, serve the essential task of moderating these instinctive self-representation fears through low-stakes conversations regarding how one embodies both themselves and their message content to an audience of diverse lifestylesand experiences. This task requires a depth of self-reflexivity in which many individuals may have never had the opportunity to engage. Thus, it is up to the UCC tutors to encourage students to explore the identities, ideals, and experiences that they may have never before examined under a critical lens. So the question remains, how can consultants best probe the student population we serve to develop critical thinking skills that encourage innovative inspections of long-held individual beliefs and characteristics, effectively allowing students to understand the dissimilarity  \nbetween being a critic and being a critical thinker?  \nAccording to Paul & Elder (2019), the first step to self-examination is recognizing that through cultural osmosis, both on the national and interpersonal scale, individuals allow themselves to absorb social expectations, prejudices, practices, and traditions. Tracing the origins, implications, and social ties that have influenced the creation of a specific belief set allows students to begin the critical thinking process. Understanding that ideals are not formed in a vacuum, but are in fact heavily influenced by social norms, facilitates the beginning of intersectional awareness. Here, individuals realize that the small actions and messages of various groups with which they interact actually reinforce beliefs to the point of internalization. At the internalization stage, the individual begins self-reinforcing beliefs.  \nAn important distinction that UCC tutors may make is that, while maintenance of familiar or traditional thinking is not inherently wrong, the rejection of transformative information facilitates polarization and may force the audience to also engage in less receptive behaviors during the public speaking presentation. Ceasing self-reflexivity and maintaining an unwillingness to alter belief sets causes loss of the inherent meaning within the ideal itself in favor of self-service. Consistent with assertions from Savitsky, Keysar, Epley, Carter, & Swanson (2011), a lack of self-reflexivity can create further in-group polarization which leads to increased likelihood of only socializing with other  \nlike-minded individuals, which works counter to the development of critical examination. Sedentary, uncritical thought breeds uncritical practices. Thus, when not encouraged to engage with different experiences and perspectives, we gravitate to what is familiar. This complacency of avoiding broadening one’s horizons encourages individuals to continue doing what they’ve always done and thinking in manners in which they’ve always thought, colloquially regarded as “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” and “choosing the devil you know instead of the devil you don’t.”  \nPerspective taking, then, becomes the next strategy for morphing communication students into  \ncommunication sc","cbCaigVclrogduf1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigVclrogduf1","pdf",29542,"English","# Introduction\n# UCC Tutoring and Self-Reflexivity\n# Cultural Osmosis and Belief Formation\n# Polarization and the Cost of Uncritical Thought\n# Perspective Taking and Compassion","[{\"question\":\"Why is critical thinking emphasized in a communication studies classroom?\",\"answer\":\"Public speaking in communication studies involves personal stakes and self-disclosure, which can trigger apprehension. 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