Title: Thinking Critically Author: Chaffee Publisher: Cengage Year Published: 2019 Edition: 12th ISBN: 13: 9780357690109
For this quiz you will write well composed paper addressing the material covered in Chapter 2. The paper will include a title page and 3 full pages of content. Please submit a Word document (.doc or .docx) for this individual assignment.
Skill Focus • Drawing valid inferences and conclusions 1. Read the section “Carefully Exploring Situations with Questions.” Go back and mark the section. Review your marks and comments as an aid to understanding. 2. Reflect on a personal situation or one that has happened to a friend or relative. Describe that situation in a paragraph or two. 3. Answer the following questions on the basis of the situation you described above: a. Why should people use questions when they have a problem? b. What kinds of questions should be asked to determine basic information? c. What kinds of questions help to discover the relationship between facts and ideas? d. What kinds of questions break a whole problem into separate parts (analysis)? e. What kinds of questions should be asked when you want to combine ideas to form a new whole (synthesis)? f. What kinds of questions should be asked to make informed judgments about the truth or the reliability of evidence? g. What kinds of questions allow you to take knowledge from one situation and apply it to another situation?