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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 4 - Identifying Assumptions, Biases, and Common Fallacies

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Competency builders, discussion threads, and blogs in the community give you an opportunity to practice the concepts you are reading about in the learning resources. Go to the Reasoning and Problem Solving community and post to the following competency builders:

Competency Builder: Assumptions, Biases, and Inferences
Competency Builder: Two Kinds of Bias
Competency Builder: Identifying Unstated Assumptions

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