First, the only way you can ball this up is not to do it. :) Enjoy thinking about how you think. Deep thinkers are better writers, students, leaders, and so on. BTW: You CANNOT SEE anyone else's post until you post. Fairer that way. 1. I want you to visit http://www.npr.org/ and browse their site. Look around on this homepage. Then, click the down arrow next to Programs at the top of the page. Under News & Conversations, choose one or two programming options and visit them. Choose one with an article(s) that you like and reread it. You may also go to The New York Times webpage (http://www.nytimes.com/) Then, I want you do the following: 2. Go to the College and University Students section of the Critical Thinking Communitys website: http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/college-and-university-students/799 and read that page. Scroll down the page to a set of links. While youre welcome to browse them all, click on the link that says, Distinguishing Between Inferences and Assumptions. Read that page. Think about what you think based on clues that remind you of your previous experiences and think about what you know (assume) based on what your experiences have taught you. Either one can be accurate or false because they rely on more than mere facts. 3. Now, copy/paste the link and discuss your article in a post (200 word minimumno attachments, and do not count any quotes from the article in your word count). Did you make inferences or assumptions about that article? Yes, you didwithout realizing it. We ALL do. Okay. Think about what you already know about the topic you. Or you may have known nothing about the topic. Was there any hesitancy as you read it? Why did you choose this article? What did you learn, or even better, do you agree or disagree with it? Please copy/paste areas from the article as you discuss it. (First practice in quoting, citing, and working quotes into your text.) 4. Finally, respond to a peers post. This time, I want you to really focus on his/her original post. Did your colleague make an assumption or inference? How so? Have fun with this. You will keep everyone on their toes! This is a fun assignment. It is article-driven, articles that you choose to discuss. Remember to do the following for the full 15 points credit: FIRST POST DUE WEDNESDAY @ MIDNIGHT Follow the word count! Choose an article from NPRs site. Read it. Then, read the article I indicated from the Critical Thinking website. Then, post a link to the NPR article you chose to write about. Discuss the article as outlined above. (Remember the word countminimum 200 words!) Be sure and quote the areas to which you are referring.

First, the only way you can ball this up is not to do it. :) Enjoy thinking about how you think. Deep thinkers are better writers, students, leaders, and so on. BTW: You CANNOT SEE anyone else's post until you post. Fairer that way. 1. I want you to visit http://www.npr.org/ and browse their site. Look around on this homepage. Then, click the down arrow next to Programs at the top of the page. Under News & Conversations, choose one or two programming options and visit them. Choose one with an article(s) that you like and reread it. You may also go to The New York Times webpage (http://www.nytimes.com/) Then, I want you do the following: 2. Go to the College and University Students section of the Critical Thinking Communitys website: http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/college-and-university-students/799 and read that page. Scroll down the page to a set of links. While youre welcome to browse them all, click on the link that says, Distinguishing Between Inferences and Assumptions. Read that page. Think about what you think based on clues that remind you of your previous experiences and think about what you know (assume) based on what your experiences have taught you. Either one can be accurate or false because they rely on more than mere facts. 3. Now, copy/paste the link and discuss your article in a post (200 word minimumno attachments, and do not count any quotes from the article in your word count). Did you make inferences or assumptions about that article? Yes, you didwithout realizing it. We ALL do. Okay. Think about what you already know about the topic you. Or you may have known nothing about the topic. Was there any hesitancy as you read it? Why did you choose this article? What did you learn, or even better, do you agree or disagree with it? Please copy/paste areas from the article as you discuss it. (First practice in quoting, citing, and working quotes into your text.) 4. Finally, respond to a peers post. This time, I want you to really focus on his/her original post. Did your colleague make an assumption or inference? How so? Have fun with this. You will keep everyone on their toes! This is a fun assignment. It is article-driven, articles that you choose to discuss. Remember to do the following for the full 15 points credit: FIRST POST DUE WEDNESDAY @ MIDNIGHT Follow the word count! Choose an article from NPRs site. Read it. Then, read the article I indicated from the Critical Thinking website. Then, post a link to the NPR article you chose to write about. Discuss the article as outlined above. (Remember the word countminimum 200 words!) Be sure and quote the areas to which you are referring.