Dear All,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Week 5, we are beginning to prepare for the argumentative essay assignment. It’s all about opposing viewpoints, analyzing arguments, and developing your own opinion on a given topic. Please review the reading on arguments (Activity 2), and take notes on the key terms: conclusion and premises<\/strong><\/mark>. Note that the term “conclusion” does not, in this case, mean the concluding\/ final part, but rather, in critical thinking, it’s a claim\/ argument. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In Conversation 5, I ask that you identify the conclusion and premises in two sources: a TEDTalk on happiness and one of the relevant articles. Be sure to use the words conclusion and premises as you analyze the sources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There is also an extra credit assignments on argument–optional. And an assessment on arguments (Activity 8) which consists of only 1 question. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By the way, Conversation 4 already looks interesting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I hope you are having a productive week,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prof. Barnes <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear All, In Week 5, we are beginning to prepare for the argumentative essay assignment. It’s all about opposing viewpoints, analyzing arguments, and developing your own opinion on a given topic. Please review the reading on arguments (Activity 2), and take notes on the key terms: conclusion and premises. Note that the term “conclusion” does […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ammouncements","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/critical-thinking-crt-100-0507-spring23-prof-barnes-asynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/critical-thinking-crt-100-0507-spring23-prof-barnes-asynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/critical-thinking-crt-100-0507-spring23-prof-barnes-asynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/critical-thinking-crt-100-0507-spring23-prof-barnes-asynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/critical-thinking-crt-100-0507-spring23-prof-barnes-asynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/critical-thinking-crt-100-0507-spring23-prof-barnes-asynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1894,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/critical-thinking-crt-100-0507-spring23-prof-barnes-asynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/1894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/critical-thinking-crt-100-0507-spring23-prof-barnes-asynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/critical-thinking-crt-100-0507-spring23-prof-barnes-asynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/critical-thinking-crt-100-0507-spring23-prof-barnes-asynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/critical-thinking-crt-100-0507-spring23-prof-barnes-asynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}