I felt both assignments gave me a more clear and concise understanding on different techniques that can be used to evaluate arguments and claims used in articles, advertisements, social organizations.
However, for me personally it was the second assignment that really went into depth on different aspects used in critical thinking. It showed that there are different ways we can evaluate and analyze a group based on what we have learned throughout this course. For example, after completing this assignment, I am now more fully aware of how organizations use fallacies and concealed claims and especially appeal to emotion, pity to really capture the audience's attention. It never really occured to me prior to this assignment what the term was called when a social organization used certain terms and pictures to make the people watching and looking through their site to feel bad/pity for their cause;thus leading to the individuals giving in to what they see (what they are shown). Now I know that can be appeal to emotion,pity, spite, etc. Now and for the future, when I am watching commercials or see ads or sites for organizations that help give back to the community, I will be able to identify what concealed claim they used, or what their fallacies were, or how appeal to emotion, and/or pity was shown.
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ReplyDeleteI too also choose the second assignment as the most useful. I def agree to what you have stated above. It really helps your analyzing or critical thinking skills. It makes you aware to look for certain stuff when your looking at infomation. It also helped me be a better writer..at least me by be ing able to give more details and evidence when I write. Like you said too, it helped identify what concealed claim they used, or what their fallacies were, or how appeal to emotion, and/or pity was shown.
I would have to agree with you! I think the second assignment had the most impact on me. I feel that the second assignment went along with almost everything that we learned! I believe that it had a little something from each chapter and reinforced it to us. I gave me a change to really look into an organization and look for the real motives behind it. I have never really done that before. But now I know the different tactics that some companies might use to get you to believe in them and I can start to see thought all the crap that try to throw at you!
ReplyDeleteI chose the group two project as the more important project also. It could be, for me, that since I just did the group two project recently, it is more fresh in my mind than the first one. Also I feel like I spent WAY more time talking to my group than I did last time! I definitely felt like we spent more time on it; therefore, we got more out of it. This textbook definitely makes me think more analytically about things now. It is kind of weird.. like how you were talking about when watching commercials, you notice the appeal to emotion. I totally do that too now!
ReplyDeleteAfter reading your post, it definitely made me see things in a different perspective. I personally think that the online assignment helped me how to work in a group environment through emails and chatrooms. But I agree with you that it was really the second assignment that helped us see how to critique social organizations and put things we learned in the past into use. I think the major assignments does help us a lot in real life because we can use strong premise to argue with someone and they won't even know that their premise isn't valid compare to ours! Great job on this post :)
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