2- Critical Thinking

class PHI 100. Book: Think: Critical Thinking and Logic Skills For Everyday Life, Fifth Edition by Judith A. Boss. Chapter 6
The second section of your text reading this week offered eight steps to constructing an argument:

State the issue
Develop a list of premises
Eliminate weak or irrelevant premises
Establish a conclusion
Organize your argument
Try out your argument on others
Revise your argument
Put your solution or conclusion into action
We will use this as a guideline for helping us write our argumentation long paragraph. The first step is to select and then state the issue. In determining your issue, here are some helpful hints:

Limit your topic – even in selecting an issue, there should be some limiting in its scope by the wording of the issue
Enjoy your topic – pick something of interest to you or something in which you already have experience!
Consider the evidence for your topic – don’t pick something that would be too obscure or personal to research!
Weaker ideas:

The death penalty (likely too broad)
My dog, Sammi (likely too personal)
College (needs to be more limited)

Better ideas:
“Time out” as a disciple tool
Social media in business
Value of learning a musical instrument
Ethical hacking

Use this Planning Guide to help you determine your topic/issue and the kinds of initial evidence you plan on using. Take your time in thinking through the premises and be sure to offer a valid source (evidence!) for each premise. Once you have filled in the two charts on the Planning Guide, please submit it for feedback.Instructions below
The second section of your text reading this week offered eight steps to constructing an argument:

State the issue
Develop a list of premises
Eliminate weak or irrelevant premises
Establish a conclusion
Organize your argument
Try out your argument on others
Revise your argument
Put your solution or conclusion into action
We will use this as a guideline for helping us write our argumentation long paragraph. The first step is to select and then state the issue. In determining your issue, here are some helpful hints:

Limit your topic – even in selecting an issue, there should be some limiting in its scope by the wording of the issue
Enjoy your topic – pick something of interest to you or something in which you already have experience!
Consider the evidence for your topic – don’t pick something that would be too obscure or personal to research!
Weaker ideas:

The death penalty (likely too broad)
My dog, Sammi (likely too personal)
College (needs to be more limited)

Better ideas:
“Time out” as a disciple tool
Social media in business
Value of learning a musical instrument
Ethical hacking

Use this Planning Guide to help you determine your topic/issue and the kinds of initial evidence you plan on using. Take your time in thinking through the premises and be sure to offer a valid source (evidence!) for each premise. Once you have filled in the two charts on the Planning Guide, please submit it for feedback.