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Important! Read First
Choose one of the following two assignments to complete this week. Do not do both assignments. Identify your assignment choice in the title of your submission.
Option #1: Critical Analysis Essay
Directions:
Using the concepts learned through
the readings and lecture pages, write a critical analysis essay that
answers at least three of the following prompts or questions:
- How might you employ critical thinking as a tool to further your career aspirations?
- Describe the differences between inert information, assumptions, and inferences. Describe an assumption that you have made in the past that had important consequence.
- Where do you see yourself using activated ignorance (Links to an external site.) to think about issues? What steps could you take to move towards activated knowledge on this issue?
- What is the difference between activated ignorance and activated knowledge? Where do you have difficulties “thinking for yourself”? Why does critical thinking demand high levels of intellectual autonomy?
- Why are concepts, theories, and ideas central to good critical reasoning?
Requirements:
- Cite all claims and ideas using scholarly sources. While it is
acceptable to write in the first person, be sure to cite your sources to
support your inferences. To understand how to construct your thoughts
you can view these short clips on informal and formal writing.
- Peter Elbow: On Writing (Links to an external site.)
- Writing for Life: Start 39:58 end 41:30
- Writing Across the Curriculum: Forgetting formality: Start 29:05 end 32:52
- Writing Across the Curriculum Revising for Formality: Start 32:53 end 34:48
- Include at least one or two scholarly sources that are not part of the required or recommended reading for this course. The CSU-Global Library (Links to an external site.) is a good place to find these sources.
- Your paper should be four to five pages in length and formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA (Links to an external site.).
- Papers should be double-spaced, 12-point font Times New Roman.
- Include the following in your essay: a brief introduction (Links to an external site.), a conclusion (Links to an external site.), and a reference page formatted according to CSU-Global APA requirements.
- You may wish to review the Template Paper for help formatting your essay according to the requirements
Option #2: Letter to Your Future Self
Directions:
Using the concepts learned through
the readings and lecture pages, write a letter to yourself on critical
reasoning that you will read one year from now. This letter should
synthesize the concepts you have learned in Modules 1 and 2 to serve as a
“benchmark” for your development as a thinker over the next year.
Include the following ideas and terms in your letter:
- Which parts of the universal intellectual standards or the elements of reason are most difficult for you at this point? What strategies could you implement to grow?
- To what stage of critical thinking do you aspire in one year? Which parts of the universal intellectual standards and the elements of reason will be most important to your development in critical reasoning? Why?
- What key concepts or ideas shape your thinking today? How might you actively examine, challenge, and, if necessary, replace these concepts or ideas to expand your critical thinking capacities?
Requirements:
- Cite all claims and ideas using scholarly sources. While it is acceptable to write in the first person, be sure to cite your sources to support your inferences. To understand how to construct your thoughts you can view these short clips on informal and formal writing.
- Peter Elbow: On Writing (Links to an external site.)
- Writing for Life: Start 39:58 end 41:30
- Writing Across the Curriculum: Forgetting formality: Start 29:05 end 32:52
- Writing Across the Curriculum Revising for Formality: Start 32:53 end 34:48
- Include at least one or two scholarly sources that are not part of the required or recommended reading for this course. The CSU-Global Library (Links to an external site.) is a good place to find these sources.
- Your paper should be four to five pages in length and formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA (Links to an external site.).
- Papers should be double-spaced, 12-point font Times New Roman.
- Include the following in your essay: a brief introduction (Links to an external site.), a conclusion (Links to an external site.), and a reference page formatted according to CSU-Global APA requirements.
- You may wish to review the Template Paper for help formatting your essay according to the requirements.
Required
- Chapters 4 & 5 in Critical thinking: Tools for taking charge of your learning and your life.
- Egege, S., & Kutieleh, S. (2004). Critical thinking: Teaching foreign notions to foreign students. International Educational Journal, 4(4).
Recommended
- Afflerbach, P., Cho, B., & Kim, J. (2015). Conceptualizing and assessing higher-order thinking in reading. Theory Into Practice. 54(3), 203-212. Doi:10.1080/00405841.2015.1044367
- Johnson-Laird, P. N., & Lee, N. Y. (2006, January). Are there cross-cultural differences in reasoning? Retrieved from http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1tr5n9sr#page-1
- Ybarra, O., Kross, E., & Sanchez-Burks, J. (2014). The "Big idea" that is yet to be: Toward a more motivated, contextual, and dynamic model of emotional intelligence. Academy of Management Perspectives, 28(2), 93-107. doi:10.5465/amp.2012.0106
Rubric
HUM101 Mod 2 CT
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This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Requirements |
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10.0 pts |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Content |
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10.0 pts |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Critical Thinking |
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25.0 pts |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Critical Analysis |
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25.0 pts |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Sources / Examples |
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10.0 pts |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Demonstrates college-level proficiency in organization, grammar and style. |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Demonstrates proper use of APA style |
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Total Points: 100.0 |
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Explanation & Answer
Attached.
Topic: Critical thinking skills
Thesis statement: It is the nature of human beings to think, but what matters most is the extent to
which this thinking is uninformed, biased, distorted and uninformed. This call for the application
of critical thinking for positive results.
Subtopics:
i)
Introduction
ii)
Question 1: Application of critical thinking as a tool
iii)
Question 3: Activated ignorance and activated knowledge
iv)
Question 5: Importance of concepts, theories, and ideas in good critical reasoning
v)
Conclusion
Running head: CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
Critical Thinking skills
University Affiliation
Student Name
Date
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CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
Introduction
The concept of critical thinking has been in use for the last 2,500 years, where it has
received tremendous advancement and improvement over time. The National Council for
Excellence defines critical thinking as the intellectual process where an individual skillfully and
actively conceptualizes, apply, synthesize, evaluate, and analyze specific, gathered information.
The information can be gathered through experience, observation, communication, or reasoning
on various universal intellectual values. The basic known universal intellectual values are clarity,
precision, relevance, good reasons, fairness, relevance, and accuracy, among others. Critical
thinking can vary depending on the motivation behind it. Positive motives will eventually lead to
positive outcomes of the use of critical thinking, while negative motives like selfishness will
eventually lead to the use of critical thinking for selfish gains (McPeck, 2016). It is the nature of
human beings to think, but what matters most is the extent to which this thinking is uninformed,
biased, distorted, and uninformed. This call for...
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