This is a critical thinking writing of assignment
Read 290 – Final Exam
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Final Exam Analysis and Evaluation Worksheet
Use this worksheet to analyze and evaluate the TED Talk you selected to watch. You may type your answers directly into the boxes provided. (As you type your answers directly onto this worksheet the boxes will expand to fit your responses). Please submit this document directly to the link on TITANium.
TED Talk I watched:
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1. What is the issue? (Be sure you state the issue in the form of a question.) |
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2. What is the author’s conclusion? |
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3. List the reasons the author gives to support his/her conclusion. (Please put in a numbered or bullet-point format.) |
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4. Identify ambiguous and vague terms used in the author’s argument. |
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5. What are the value conflicts and the author’s value assumptions? |
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6. What are the descriptive assumptions? |
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7. Are there any fallacies in the reasoning? |
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8. How good is the evidence? |
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9. Are there rival causes? |
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10. Are the statistics deceptive? |
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11. What significant information is omitted? |
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12. What reasonable conclusions are possible? |
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