Weekly Reflection MGT/521 August 17, 2012 Learning Team A Learning Team A. Ellen Thomas Team A: Weekly Reflection In this paper, Learning Team A will collaborate on Week One objectives while expressing our level of comfort and discomfort to the following topics: • Identify channels for business communications • Evaluate credibility and validity of sources of information. • Develop effective arguments The information addressed within our Weekly Reflection
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Sufficient evidence includes common knowledge, specific examples, statistics, expert and authoritative opinions, and quotations from authorities. Valid evidence is that which is clearly and directly connected with the point to be proved. Furthermore, good logic is very important because all the facts and evidence should be logically connected with the conclusion and with each other. You can use inductive or deductive way to organize your reasoning. What’s more, you should also pay more attention to the ways
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Quiz Review Outline “Critical thinking is the systematic evaluation or formulation of beliefs, or statements, by rational standards.” • It’s systematic because it involves distinct procedures and methods (not just gut feelings). • It’s used to evaluate existing beliefs and formulate new ones. • It evaluates beliefs in terms of how well they are supported by reasons. Key Terms: Assertion/Statement - A declarative sentence that is intended to make a claim of some sort. Sometimes these are
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Goals for improving Critical thinking Hello, today I am going to be talking about my personal goals for improving my critical thinking First of all, critical thinking is the process of applying reasoned and disciplined reasoning to a subject Some goals I would like to meet so as to improve my critical thinking are (i) making use of wasted time (ii) solving a problem a day and; (iii) keeping an intellectual journal Some of the elements of Reasoning I used to formulate these goals
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Week One Student Guide This week introduces the basics of the communication process including the steps in the communication process and understanding the roles of the listener and the receiver. The readings in Communicating in the Workplace focus on the basics of communication including the various roles, channels, and the importance of the message. The readings in Critical Thinking provid background for the concepts of persuasion, arguments, and critical thinking that are involved in much
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Title Examining Different Arguments Related to the Choice of a Career Assessment Part A: Critically Evaluating an Argument Build your mindmap. Arts and Sciences (Advantage): Lots of flexibility in career choices: Overgeneralization Arts and Sciences (Disadvantage): Leads to a career in food service –“Do you want fries with that?”: irrational appeal Education (Advantage): The best way to make a difference in the world: overgeneralization Education (Disadvantage): Guaranteed low paying
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Generally according to Spatt (2011) ,There are four mistakes avoiding to presenting arguments: 1. Don’t be one-sided; present both sides of an argument, (Spatt, 2011) 2. Don’t omit crucial parts of the source’s reasoning; provide a complete, Account of the argument. (Spatt, 2011) 3. Don’t quote ideas out of context: make sure that you—and your Reader—understand whether the source really supports the idea That you are citing. (Spatt, 2011) 4. Don’t twist the source’s ideas to fit your own
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WHAT IS THE PYRAMID PRINCIPLE? DESCRIPTION Barbara Minto's Pyramid Principle is a hierarchically structured thinking and communication technique that can be used to precede good structured writing. The Minto Pyramid Principle assumes that you already know how to write good sentences and paragraphs. It concentrates instead on the thinking process that should precede the writing. The core of Minto's thinking method is to group Ideas in a presenter's thought process into small clusters that support
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letter in a way that he agreed with his critics, nonetheless still using their words against them in logic harmony. King’s letter illustrates the three artistic proofs used to convince an audience. This paper will discuss the ethos, pathos, and logos modes of persuasion as well as writing structure as seen in King’s “The letter from Birmingham jail”. King’s letter demonstrates his clear logic, empathetic prose, sense of self, as maintained by high moral ground. His letter evokes ethical appeal
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Case analysis 1. Background Peter is in charge of a team in an international company and they have a positive collaboration relationship with a MLV vendor, which can provide products successfully. But now Michael is responsible for the management and he insists SLV is cheaper and better than MLV. 2. Analysis If the company keeps MLV, the advantages will be quite obvious. Firstly, they are familiar with each other and the quality should be trusted. They have cooperated with the previous
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