{"id":22695,"date":"2023-07-02T00:42:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T00:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/critical-thinking-heart-of-the-matter-ethical-decision-making-looking-foreward\/"},"modified":"2023-07-02T00:42:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T00:42:28","slug":"critical-thinking-heart-of-the-matter-ethical-decision-making-looking-foreward","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/critical-thinking-heart-of-the-matter-ethical-decision-making-looking-foreward\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical thinking, Heart of the matter, Ethical Decision-Making, looking foreward"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"margin: 40px 0px 20px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; cursor: auto;\">Required Resources<\/h4>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Read\/review the following resources for this activity:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 8px; padding: 8px 16px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Textbook: Chapter 16- Book: Facione, P., &amp; Gittens, C. A. (2015). <i style=\"color: inherit; font-size: 12pt; background-color: var(--color-6); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; cursor: auto;\">Think Critically<\/i><span style=\"color: inherit; font-size: 12pt; background-color: var(--color-6); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;\"> (3rd ed.) [Vital source]. Pearson Education. <\/span><span style=\"color: inherit; font-size: 12pt; background-color: var(--color-6); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; cursor: auto;\">https:\/\/ambassadored.vitalsource.com\/books\/9780133914351<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Lesson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"margin: 40px 0px 20px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; cursor: auto;\">Introduction<\/h4>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Remember \u2013 these journal questions require more thinking than writing. Think about exactly what you are asked to do, and then write as economically as possible.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"margin: 40px 0px 20px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; cursor: auto;\">Instructions<\/h4>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 8px; padding: 8px 16px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Critical Thinking<\/strong>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 8px; padding: 8px 16px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Go back to your very first journal entry \u2013 review your definition of critical thinking. After studying critical thinking for the past eight weeks, would you change your definition in any way? If yes, how and why? If no \u2013 if it was perfect \u2013 what parts of the text were best reflected in your definition?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Heart of the Matter<\/strong>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 8px; padding: 8px 16px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Recall in your first journal entry that you discussed the authors&#8217; statement that the concepts in Chapters 12, 13 and 14 were &#8220;the heart of the matter.&#8221; After having studied those chapters, answer again, with renewed understanding, the question posed there: Why do you think the authors find these concepts important to critical thinking?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Ethical Decision-Making<\/strong>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 8px; padding: 8px 16px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The lecture claims that an argument is no good unless it has a &#8220;strong and reasoned ethical base.&#8221; Do you agree that ethics is an essential element of a good argument? If yes, why? If no, why not?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Looking Forward<\/strong>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 8px; padding: 8px 16px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Do you believe that you now know everything you need to know about critical thinking \u2013 or is learning to think critically a life-long task? Explain your answer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"margin: 40px 0px 20px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; cursor: auto;\">Writing Requirements (APA format)<\/h4>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 8px; padding: 8px 16px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Length: 1 \u00bd -2 pages (not including prompts, title page or references page)<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">1-inch margins<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Double spaced<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">12-point Times New Roman font<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Title page<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">References page<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Required Resources Read\/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: Chapter 16- Book: Facione, P., &amp; Gittens, C. A. (2015). Think Critically (3rd ed.) [Vital source]. Pearson Education. https:\/\/ambassadored.vitalsource.com\/books\/9780133914351 Lesson Introduction Remember \u2013 these journal questions require more thinking than writing. 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