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Course Contents: Reasoning and Problem Solving (after 11/1/2008) Home; Week 1 A - Orientation and Pre-Instructional Activities; Week 1 B - What is Critical Thinking; Week 2 - The Elements of Reasoning and Standards of Critical Thinking; Week 3 - Systematic Problem Solving; Week 4 - Identifying Assumptions, Biases, and Common Fallacies; Week 5 - Considering Evidence, Including Statistics; Week 6 - Thinking about Your Thinking and Critical Writing; Week 7 - Critical Thinking in the Disciplines and Professions; Week 8 - Selecting a Question and Documenting Initial Understanding; Week 9 - Analysis of Sources; Week 10 - Assumptions, Biases, and Possible Solutions; Week 11 - Expressing Your Viewpoint and Biases Related to Your Selected Problem; Week 12 - Creating a Writing Plan; Week 13 and 14 - Writing the Analytical Essay; Week 15 - Writing the Self-Refection Essay

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Week 10 - Assumptions, Biases, and Possible Solutions

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Read the directions and the rubrics for the CST1 Task Three in TaskStream.

Write CST1 Task Three (5-7 pages essay on solutions, assumptions, biases, and implications).
Proofread your essay for typos, word usage problems, sentence structure, grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Before submitting the task, check to see if you have completed the following: (Information taken from the “meets standards” column of the rubric. For more detail, please check the rubric found at the bottom of each task in TaskStream.)

1.     Have you provided an adequate response?

2.     Is the work free of major mechanical errors?

3.     Have you provided a logical evaluation of the reasoning supporting the preferred solution or response?

4.     Have you articulated two alternate solutions?

5.     Have you provided a logical explanation of the implications for the alternate solution?

6.     Have you provided a plausible prediction of the consequences of the alternate solution?

7.     Have you provided a plausible analysis of the assumptions or bias that support the alternate solution?

8.     Have you provided a logical explanation of the implications for the alternate solution?

9.     Have you provide a plausible prediction of the consequences of the alternate solution?

10.   Have you provide a plausible analysis of the assumptions or bias that support the alternate solution?

11.   Have you provided a logical explanation of why different groups support different solutions to the same problem?

12.   Have you provided in-text citations and references in APA style?

Copyright 2008, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. Week 10 - Assumptions, Biases, and Possible Solutions. (2008, October 10). Retrieved March 18, 2010, from Western Governors University Web site: http://ocw.wgu.edu/liberal-arts/clrps-after-11-1-2008/a123.html. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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