Do you believe that you now know everything you need to know about critical thinking – or is learning to think critically a life-long task? Explain your answer.

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Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:

  • Textbook: Chapter 16
  • Lesson

Introduction
Remember – these journal questions require more thinking than writing. Think about exactly what you are asked to do, and then write as economically as possible.

Instructions

  • Critical Thinking
    • Go back to your very first journal entry – 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 – if it was perfect – what parts of the text were best reflected in your definition?
  • Heart of the Matter
    • Recall in your first journal entry that you discussed the authors’ statement that the concepts in Chapters 12, 13 and 14 were “the heart of the matter.” 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?
  • Ethical Decision-Making
    • The lecture claims that an argument is no good unless it has a “strong and reasoned ethical base.” Do you agree that ethics is an essential element of a good argument? If yes, why? If no, why not?
  • Looking Forward
    • Do you believe that you now know everything you need to know about critical thinking – or is learning to think critically a life-long task? Explain your answer.

Writing Requirements (APA format)

  • Length: 2 pages (not including title page or references page)
  • 1-inch margins
  • Double spaced
  • 12-point Times New Roman font
  • Title page
  • References page

identify an important figure in American history from the American National Biography Online database, available through the Jerry Falwell Library, and write a 1-page biography of that individual.

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Biography Instructions

You will identify an important figure in American history from the American National Biography Online database, available through the Jerry Falwell Library, and write a 1-page biography of that individual.

In the biography, you will properly cite the American National Biography Online at the top and write a full, 1-page summary. The summary must not include any footnotes or other citations.

After writing the summary, you will create a bibliography that identifies 3 scholarly books using the Jerry Falwell Library search engine and/or WorldCat (www.worldcat.org), 3 scholarly articles using JSTOR, Academic Search Complete, Academic OneFile, and/or Summon (found in Jerry Falwell Library databases), and 3 reputable websites to create a bibliography related to the subject of your biography. For an overview on choosing topics, visit Liberty’s Information Research Modules. The use of current Turabian formatting in your bibliography is required.

The purposes of this assignment are to teach you about important figures in U.S. history, introduce you to the process of finding different sources available through Liberty University, and help you learn the importance of proper formatting.

Specific Policies for the Biographies

A. Include your name, date, and course on the upper right of your biography. Single space these items.

B. The summary must be typed and doubled-spaced, have 1-inch margins, and be at least 1 page.

C. The summary must have at least 3 paragraphs including an introduction, body, and conclusion. There must be no extra space between paragraphs.

D. You must place page numbers at the bottom of each page of your summary and bibliography.

E. Each source in the bibliography must be single-spaced with an extra space between the sources. The sources must be in alphabetical order by the author’s last name. See the sample citations below for guidance.

F. Read and apply the “Tips for Reading and Writing in History” (found in the course’s Additional Information folder, under Course Guides and Assignment Instructions). With very few exceptions, the best biographies will be the ones that undergo several revisions. In your revisions, check for grammatical errors, organizational problems, and the clarity of your descriptions.

Submit Biography 1 via SafeAssign by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module/Week 2.

Submit Biography 2 via SafeAssign by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module/Week 7.

 

Proper Turabian Format for Biography

Citation for American National Biography Online (at top of summary):

Bruce, Robert V. “Bell, Alexander Graham.” American National Biography Online. Accessed on July 28, 2016. http://ezproxy.liberty.edu/login?url=http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-00115.html.

Bibliography (in alphabetical order)

Books (3 books)

Gray, Charlotte. Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2006.

Articles (3 scholarly articles)

Beauchamp, Christopher. “Who Invented the Telephone? Lawyers, Patents, and the Judgments of History.” Technology and Culture 51, no. 4 (October 2010): 854–78.

Websites (3 reputable websites)

For  example, take the idea of socialization and explain an event in your life that has happened and relates to this idea

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Self-Reflection Paper Instructions

Social Psychology offers us a lot of insight into why we are the way we are. It shows us

patterns of how we think and gives us an understanding of what has shaped us. The

requirement for this paper are for you to take a look at yourself and focus on two distinct

concepts of yourself. The first concept is the past concept: pick three things you have

learned this semester that relate to how you have become the person that you are. For

example, take the idea of socialization and explain an event in your life that has happened

and relates to this idea. The other concept is the future concept: focus on two things that

you can take from this class to shape who you are going to be in the future. With both of

these, make sure to completely explain the ideas that you are expressing from the book.

Each paper must meet the following standards:

1.

Double Spaced

2.

Time New Roman 12 point font

3.

6 pages in length/No more than 8 pages

a.

Page number/Each page must be numbered

4.

No header/do not include any of the following

a.

Your name

b.

My name

c.

Class

d.

Date

e.

Assignment

5.

MLA Citations of any quotes from the book

6.

Past concept

a.

Three  ideas that relate to your past

b.

One personal example for each idea

7.

Future Concept

a.

Two ideas that relate to changing yourself in the future

b.

How you plan on implementing them

8.

*Citation page/only if using outside sources other than the textbook

a.

If needed, this page does not count as part of your page length

Did your search make use of the pop-out effect? How? If not, how might using the pop-out effect have resulted in a successful or quick search?

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Need this within 3 hours

Assignment 1: Discussion—Visual Searches

You probably notice every day that some objects in the environment are easier to notice than other objects. For example, workers at sports stadiums often wear bright yellow shirts, which are very easy to see. While the crowd may blend in together, the workers are prominent and are easy to notice when you want a drink or something to eat. In this assignment, you will further explore how people engage in visual searches and what features of a stimulus make a search easier.

Think of a time when you had to locate someone in a crowd, such as a participant in a parade, a friend in a packed theater, or a runner in a marathon. Based on your experience, respond to the following:

  • Were you successful in locating the person? What strategy did you use?
  • Did your search make use of the pop-out effect? How? If not, how might using the pop-out effect have resulted in a successful or quick search?
  • Did you conduct a conjunctive search? If yes, how did the number of distracters and features affect your search?
  • Using the principles you have read about in this module, how would you make the material in a long e-mail stand out in order to ensure that the reader notices it?

Visual searches are also very important in warnings. Warnings need to stand out from their background. The warning must first be noticed, then read and understood. For example, a stick figure could be performing an ambiguous action and have an “X” through it. You, therefore, understand that while you are not supposed to perform some action, you do not understand what that action actually is.

Give two examples of a poor warning. Did you understand them? Why did you have difficulties with them? What features could be modified to make the warnings more effective?