Education Critical Thinking

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Writing Assignment #3 Critical Thinking

How would a university research team evaluate one of your deeply-held beliefs?
Apply at least three of James Lett’s six rules of evidential reasoning (here) to something in your own life that you hold dear.

For help coming up with something to examine with Lett’s rules, check out the Whitbourne article about Our Superstitious Minds. Even the heartiest critical thinkers employ magical thinking to their lives. It is part of our human condition.

Using fewer than 600 words:

1. Share a practice, belief, or tradition that is important to you. Describe it well enough so that the reader will have no trouble identifying what you are examining.

2. Subject it to Lett’s rules (at least three of them) and write about that process.

3. Wrap up this assignment with a paragraph or two describing how this assignment affected your perspective on the practice/tradition/belief you chose.

James Lett’s six rules of evidential reasoning: http://www.csicop.org/si/show/field_guide_to_critical_thinking/

Our Superstitious Minds: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201205/our-superstitious-minds-the-7-laws-magical-thinking

(Grading criteria):
1.Topic is not only clear and well defined, but the author demonstrates how important it is to them and gives examples.(25 points)
2.The paper very skillfully applies Lett to the writer’s belief/practice/tradition.(25 points) (I am a foreign so Could you please not write about american tradition? Thank you:)
3.Deep reflection indicating a strong level of commitment to the process.(25 points)
4.Excellent writing quality.(25 points)