{"id":1834,"date":"2023-09-25T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/critical-thinking-crt-100-054w-spring-2023-prof-barnes-asynchronous\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2023-09-22T14:28:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T18:28:36","slug":"welcome-to-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt100-054w-fall23-barnes\/2023\/09\/25\/welcome-to-week-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear All,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Week 5, we are beginning to prepare for the argumentative essay assignment. It\u2019s all about opposing viewpoints, analyzing arguments, and developing your own opinion on a given topic. Please review the reading on arguments, and take notes on the key terms:<mark>\u00a0<strong>conclusion and premises<\/strong><\/mark>. Note that the term \u201cconclusion\u201d does not, in this case, mean the concluding\/ final part, but rather, in critical thinking, it\u2019s a claim\/ argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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<p>There is also an extra credit assignments on argument\u2013optional. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way, Conversation 4 already looks interesting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you are having a productive week,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Barnes&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear All, In Week 5, we are beginning to prepare for the argumentative essay assignment. It\u2019s all about opposing viewpoints, analyzing arguments, and developing your own opinion on a given topic. Please review the reading on arguments, and take notes on the key terms:\u00a0conclusion and premises. Note that the term \u201cconclusion\u201d does not, in this [&hellip;]<\/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-1834","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\/crt100-054w-fall23-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt100-054w-fall23-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt100-054w-fall23-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt100-054w-fall23-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt100-054w-fall23-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt100-054w-fall23-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2364,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt100-054w-fall23-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions\/2364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt100-054w-fall23-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt100-054w-fall23-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt100-054w-fall23-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt100-054w-fall23-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}