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HUM 115 All Assignments (NEW) For more course
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Assignment Week 1 Critical Thinking Worksheet HUM
115 Assignment Week 2 Reason, Emotion, and
Communication in Everyday Critical Thinking HUM
115 Assignment Week 3 Identifying Fallacies
Assessment
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HUM 115 All Assignments For more course
tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com      HUM 115
Week 1 Self-Analysis Worksheet   HUM 115 Week 2
Points of View Essay   HUM 115 Week 3 Asking
Questions Worksheet
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HUM 115 All DQs   For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com     HUM 115 Week 1
Discussion Critical Thinking   HUM 115 Week 2
Discussion Decision-Making   HUM 115 Week 3
Discussion Bias, Fallacy, and Assumption  
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HUM 115 Assignment Week 1 Critical Thinking
Worksheet For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com     Developing critical
thinking skills is an important journey. This
week, you were introduced to the topic of
critical thinking and had the opportunity to
complete a self-evaluation related to your
critical thinking skills. You also
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HUM 115 Assignment Week 2 Reason, Emotion, and
Communication in Everyday Critical Thinking For
more course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com    
This week's readings and activities focused on
how reason, emotion, and communication may
influence critical thinking. In this assignment,
you will identify the concepts
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HUM 115 Assignment Week 3 Identifying Fallacies
Assessment For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   In this week's
readings and activities, you learned about errors
in thinking and informal fallacies. Both of these
can occur in arguments and affect the overall
quality of the argument. Review the following
Exercises in Ch. 5 of Think Critical Thinking
and Logic Skills for Everyday Life Exercise 5-2
(p.140)
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HUM 115 Assignment Week 4 Arguments   For more
course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com     As
a critical thinker, it is important to understand
the elements of an argument and how certain types
of statements can affect the validity of an
argument. As you learned in the readings this
week, arguments are used to convince us
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HUM 115 Assignment Week 5 Applying Critical
Thinking Reflection For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com     Over the past five
weeks you have learned about different elements
related to critical thinking. You related the
concepts to your personal experiences, and
evaluated your critical thinking skills. You've
identified fallacies,
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HUM 115 Week 1 Discussion Critical Thinking   For
more course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com    
Words can have different meanings in different
contexts, and that is the case with the
word critical. Using a shared definition makes
discussion more productive, so to begin, this
week we define what is meant by critical
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HUM 115 Week 1 Self-Analysis Worksheet For more
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M 115 Week 1 Self-Analysis Worksheet As we
mentioned earlier, becoming a skilled critical
thinker takes practice. To improve the level of
your critical thinking, it is important to know
where you are now.  
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HUM 115 Week 2 Discussion Decision-Making For
more course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com    
You make dozens of choices and decisions each
day, often without being consciously
aware of them. Because critical thinking may be
more rigorous than "everyday" thinking, it
is important to recognize some factors that can
influence the effectiveness of critical
thinking, including reason, communication, and
emotion. 
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HUM 115 Week 2 Points of View Essay For more
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M 115 Week 2 Points of View Essay In Week 1, you
selected a topic to work with throughout the
course to practice your critical thinking
skills.  This week, you identify and discuss
alternative points of view about that topic.  
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HUM 115 Week 3 Asking Questions Worksheet For
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  HUM 115 Week 3 Asking Questions Worksheet In
this assignment, you identify the types of
questions that are appropriate to gain particular
information. You also practice using Socratic
questions to gain a deeper understanding of other
viewpoints.
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HUM 115 Week 3 Discussion Bias, Fallacy, and
Assumption For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com     In the first weeks
of this course, you learned about factors that
can affect how effective critical thinking is.
This week, you learn about bias, fallacy,
assumption, and ambiguous communication. These ele
ments often come into play when someone tries
to convince someone else to agree with them. 
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HUM 115 Week 4 Decision-Making and
Problem-Solving Worksheet For more course
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Week 4 Decision-Making and Problem-Solving
Worksheet The activities this week have focused
on the keys for sound decision-making and how you
can use those to solve problems.  
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HUM 115 Week 4 Discussion Arguments For more
course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com     Ever
y day we are a party to arguments. This is
another instance where defining our words is
important. When we talk about critical thinking,
the "arguments" we refer to are not the conflicts
or squabbles we have with others in our daily
interactions.
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HUM 115 Week 5 Discussion Critical Thinking and
Social Media For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com     Welcome to Week 5
and congratulations! The discussions this week
have been practical, productive, and
possibly life-changing! We started the
course reflecting on how we formulate opinions
and beliefs. We then expanded the concept of
critical thinking to include consideration of how
we relate to friends,
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HUM 115 Week 5 Strategic Thinking and
Self-Analysis Reflection Worksheet For more
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115 Week 5 Strategic Thinking and Self-Analysis
Reflection Worksheet In this final assignment for
the course, you demonstrate your understanding of
the components of and some obstacles to
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