Description
Becoming a college student means that you have a responsibility to apply knowledge to advance your field and to make the world a better place. Through practicing critical thinking skills, we learn not only to avoid being manipulated in our thinking, but to fully support and provide evidence for our ideas. Your critical thinking journal, if you kept one, will help inform your final project.
Write an 8-10 page critical thinking essay (not counting required title or reference page).
Instructions
Begin the process of constructing your project by choosing a particular issue or problem. The goal is then to align this problem or issue with a specific logic model from the text and/or other critical thinking tools you have been learning throughout the course. As you construct your essay, utilize critical thinking tools to evaluate your data and your credible research, interpret this data, and understand your specific problem or issue from a broader, deeper, and more focused perspective. Be sure to refer to your journal and think of how your critical thinking and analysis skills have grown through the course. You will need to devote two to three paragraphs to this reflection as you cite the work from your Journal.
Note: Accessing and implementing credible research from the CSU-Global Library is vitally important in the process of constructing your final essay (and it will also be important in all your future coursework).
In constructing your essay, utilize and integrate the Elements of Thought from Chapter 5, pp. 104-122.
Your paper must:
- Cite at least six scholarly peer-reviewed sources that are not required or recommended readings for this course. You may include credible websites. If you are not certain what a credible site is, ask your instructor. Wikipedia, dot coms, cable news, and blogs are not acceptable as scholarly sources (The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find your scholarly resources.)
- You may cite the textbook, but that does not count as one of the scholarly peer-reviewed sources.
- Incorporate terms and concepts from the class readings and lecture pages.
- Be formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA.
Keep in mind the following preliminary deliverables throughout the course that will go toward completing your project:
- Week 1: Submit Portfolio Project Outline (worth 25 points)
- Week 4: Submit Portfolio Project Topic (worth 25 points)
- Week 6: Submit Portfolio Project Outline (worth 25 points)
Refer to the Portfolio Project grading rubric found in the Module 8 folder to understand how you will be graded.
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Portfolio Project Option 1: Critical Thinking Essay
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Introduction
In the modern society, climate change is now affecting every continent and every
country. It is interfering with national economies and lives, communities, costing people, and
environment. People are facing significant impacts of change of climate, which include rising sea
level, extreme weather events, and changing weather patterns. The greenhouse gases emission
from human social and economic activities are driving climate change to increase. The purpose
of this paper is to apply Paul-Eder Critical Thinking Model in order to analyze the trend of
climate change and the effects on human beings and the general environment.
The Paul-Elder Critical Model helps to analyze the changing climate in order to identify
scalable and affordable solutions to enable countries and people to leap-frog to resilient and
cleaner economies. Even though identifying solutions requires a heavy investment of human
capital and financial resources, it is important as a society to understand that the dangers posed
by climate changes will be unbearable if not solve instantly (McPeck, 2016). It is of the essence
to understand that climate change is a global issue which knows no borders. Emissions in any
region regardless of the geographical location affect other people living in other regions.
Application of Paul-Elder Critical Thinking Model to the issue
The Paul-Elder Critical Thinking model is made up three components; the critical
elements of reasoning, the intellectual standards, and the intellectual traits. These three
constituents are designed to allow an individual to examine a particular issue by applying the
intellectual standards to the elements of thought. According to Paul and Elder (1997), students or
researchers need to master their elements of thoughts in order to analyze an issue.
Elements of thought
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Purpose
The climate change has brought about the destruction of the environment, destruction of
aquatic animals, and human people. The purpose of this paper is to examine the correlation
between climate change and the rise of global temperatures. The essence of this paper is to offer
better solutions of how to deal with the climate change.
Key Questions
In analyzing the issue of climate change, the questions which come into mind is what the
dangers of climate change, how long does it take to solve climate change, what governments’
efforts can be channeled to end the menace, and what strategies can be employed to solve the
issue of climate change? To answer these questions, proper facts finding need to be employed to
identify possible solutions. In a broad perspective, the issue of climate requires the efforts of
governments' agencies from both developing and development national to sit down together and
harmonize strategies for eradicating the menace (EPA, 2015).
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According to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), average global
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