Project X for Fortified

1. Determine the relationship between questioning, answering questions, and the vitality of the field of study in which the questioning is taking place.

Your response should be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

2. Define the three types of questions, and give three examples of each type of question.

Your response should be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

3. Evaluate the various elements of thought and relate these elements of thought to a personal experience in which you had to evaluate a situation using those elements of thought.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

4. Describe what the authors mean by “Questioning the depth of one’s questions,” and then explain a personal experience in which you either failed or succeeded in applying these methods to your own questioning. What was the outcome?

Your response should be at least 500 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

5. Match the explanation with the appropriate Key Term

1. questions of fact

2. questions of preference

3. questions of judgment

4. intellectual responsibility

5. socratic questioning

6. superficial learning

7. deep learning

8. dead questions

9. questions of purpose

10. questions of interpretation

11. questions of assumption

12. questions of implication

13. questions of relevance

14. questions of accuracy

15. questions of precision

A.	Questions that force one to examine what he or she is taking for granted.
B.	Questions that force us to differentiate what does and does no bear on a question.
C.	Questions that force one to follow where her thinking is leading her.
D.	Questions that force one to be specific and give details.
E.	Questions that force one to examine how he or she gives meaning to information.
F.	Questions that reflect no interest in learning the content of a course.
G.	Questions with as many answers as there are human preferences.
H.	A systematic mode of questioning that seeks to go into deep analysis of thought.
I.	Lack of interest and participation regarding course content with a focus on questions that are self-serving and usually ill-informed.
J.	Recognizing that questions of judgment require consideration of alternative ways of reasoning.
K.	Questions that force one to evaluate and test for truth and correctness.
L.	Questions that force us to define a task.
M.	Seeing education as the opportunity to develop intellectual habits and virtues, to expand one’s knowledge and mind, and to learn how to apply course content to problems in one’s life.
N.	Questions with one right answer
O.	Questions that require reasoning that have more than one defensible answer.