What: For this project, you will become an expert debunker.
Why: This essay assignment requires you to use the critical thinking standards you learned about in chapters 7 and 8. As such it meets six of the learning objectives for PHR 100 Reasoning: (1) identify and summarize the qualities, attitudes, and goals of the critical thinker; (2) identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments occurring in natural language; (3) demonstrate knowledge of the principles of good reasoning; (4) detect and identify faulty and fallacious reasoning; (5) locate, evaluate, and use effectively information from a variety of relevant sources; (6) produce good arguments, using clear, logical, and concise language, both in speaking and in writing.
How: You will write an essay in about 3 pages, using good standards of critical thinking to evaluate sources of scientific or medical information on the internet. Here is what is required in
your paper:
1. Find two internet sources that you consider to be highly reliable in a scientific or medical field or profession. You MUST explain WHY they are highly reliable using the standards for evaluating experts and science discussed in chapters 7 8. Are the experts actually experts in that subfield? Do they have the right accredited university training? Etc
2. Find two internet sources that you consider to be unreliable in the same field as the three you found to be reliable. You MUST explain WHY they are unreliable using the standards for evaluating experts and science discussed in chapters 7 8. What critical thinking standards do they violate? Do they provide only anecdotal evidence, or pitch claims to the media avoiding peer review? Do they commit logical fallacies? Etc
3. You must NOT plagiarize your essay. Plagiarized essays will receive a 0 grade, with potential for an F in the course.
- US History After Civil War E1
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- Does the U.S. need the ERA today? Why or Why not?
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- Quantitative Statistics (SPSS) Assignment
- Compare Max Webers theory of inequality to that of Karl Marx. For full credit make sure you discuss all of the following: Webers view of life-chances as based on (a) class, (b) status, and (c) party and compare/contrast to Marx theory of inequality as class conflict based on the relationship between the (d) capitalists (bourgeoisie) and (e) proletariat (working class). Conclude with a statement regarding which theory you think is most relevant to understanding contemporary US society
- political science
- Defense of Premises Sections: in which you argue or offer support for the different premises of your argument. You dont need to offer an argument or paragraph of support for every premise, but certainly for those premises which might be controversial, confusing, or that you are not taking as uncontroversial background assumptions.
- This paper is an argument analysis
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