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Ch. 1-The Benefit of Asking the Right Questions
Ch. 2- Critical Thinking as a Social Activity
Ch. 3-What are the Issue and Conclusion?
Ch. 4- What are the Reasons?
Ch. 5- What Words or Phrases are Ambiguous?
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This is an undesirable, passive method of acquiring information.
What is the sponge method?
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This relies heavily on being able to listen respectfully and with an open mind.
What is critical thinking?
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These words are not used by the author when a conclusion is implied.
What are indicator words?
100
These can be evidence, beliefs, metaphors, statistics, examples, or analogies that support or justify an author's conclusion.
What are reasons?
100
This may not help you when trying to determine the meanings of ambiguous words.
What is a dictionary?
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An interactive approach to gaining information; also a style of thinking.
What is the panning for gold method?
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These ideas, that we hold as worthwhile, shape our conclusions.
What are values?
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These three locations are the most likely places you will find a stated conclusion in a longer article.
What are the title, first paragraph, and last paragraph?
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The combination of a conclusion and the reasons that allegedly support it.
What is an argument?
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This is why we often misunderstand words with flexible meanings when we read or hear them.
What is assume an obvious meaning of words?
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The answer to social controversies.
What is no right answer?
300
This value of a critical thinker describes being an independent thinker.
What is autonomy?
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The type of the following issue: Should we legalize marijuana for recreational use in Arizona?
What is a a prescriptive issue?
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This is the question reasons answer.
What is "why"?
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Many authors who develop arguments with ambiguity do it for this reason.
What is on purpose?
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Using critical thinking to defend your current beliefs.
What is weak-sense critical thinking?
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This takes courage when faced with reasoning that is stronger than your beliefs.
What is changing your mind?
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These type of conclusions are derived from reasoning and require us to ask ourselves, "And therefore?"
What are implied conclusions?
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You cannot determine the worth of the conclusion until you identify these.
What are the reasons?
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DAILY DOUBLE According to chapter 5, this type of language is often loaded and ambiguous.
What is political language? (Double the score of the team who gets it right. If a team gets it wrong, the team loses double the points.)
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Acquiring skills of a critical thinker will improve these.
What are writing and speaking communication skills?
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This should not be the primary basis for changing your mind.
What is emotional involvement?
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It's important to identify the issue and conclusion because it's the first step in deciding this about the argument presented.
What is accepting or rejecting the author's argument?
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Name the sentence with a reason(s) for the conclusion- WE SHOULD HAVE THE DEATH PENALTY IN THE U.S.: (1) 1,188 people were executed in the US from 1977 through 2009, primarily by means of lethal injection. (2) Most death penalty cases go through years of appeals. (3) The death penalty preserves law and order, deters crime, and costs less than life imprisonment.
What is sentence 3?
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This is a type of meaning that has emotional associations not found in the dictionary.
What is connotation?