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Often the most important paragraph in the entire essay, the introduction grabs the reader’s attention—sometimes a difficult task for academic writing. Triple-click your mouse anywhere in this paragraph to replace this text with your introduction.

Elements of Critical Thinking

In this paragraph, focus on the elements of critical thinking apparent in the scenario. What barriers to critical thinking were apparent? Review Paragraph 2 of the scenario and Weeks 1 and 2 course content. How were the barriers to critical thinking presented? Do you believe that Sally possesses characteristics of a good critical thinker? Why or why not? Review the entire scenario and consider her handling of barriers, reason, emotion, communication, and fallacies when you answer. Replace this text with a well-developed paragraph including a topic sentence and transitions. Triple-click your mouse anywhere in this paragraph to replace this text with your 1st body paragraph.

Reason, Emotion, and Communication

In this paragraph, focus on the role that reason, emotion, and communication play in the scenario. How does Sally demonstrate reasoning in this scenario? How did emotion affect Sally’s critical thinking? Review Paragraphs 2-4 to look at reason and emotions in the scenario and the course content in Week 2. What type of communication style does Sally use while at dinner with her colleagues? Why do you believe this? Review Paragraph 2 of the scenario and Week 2 course content. Replace this text with a well-developed paragraph including a topic sentence and transitions. Triple-click your mouse anywhere in this paragraph to replace this text with your 2nd body paragraph.

Fallacies and Argument

In this paragraph, you will explain the fallacies and arguments presented in the scenario. What fallacies are present in the scenario? Review Paragraph 4 of the scenario and Week 3 course content. What is the main argument presented? Do you believe the argument is valid? Why or why not? Review Paragraph 4 of the scenario and Week 4 course content. Replace this text with a well-developed paragraph including a topic sentence and transitions. Triple-click your mouse anywhere in this paragraph to replace this text with your 3rd body paragraph.

Conclusion

The concluding paragraph summarizes the key points from the supporting paragraphs without introducing any new information. Triple-click your mouse anywhere in this paragraph to replace this text with your conclusion.

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Critical Thinking Scenario

Sally is a 34-year-old woman who works in the customer service department for a small company that sells printers. Her job involves speaking with customers and addressing their concerns for 8 hours a day. Unfortunately for Sally, customers only reach out to her department when there is an issue with their printers.

Once, after a long day of listening to customer complaints, she felt drained and agitated. She wanted to relax, so she went to dinner with some colleagues. The colleagues began discussing an issue at work that was causing friction between departments. Sally did not agree with her colleagues’ viewpoint on the causes of that friction, but she did not want to say anything because she felt she did not know enough about the topic. For the remaining part of the discussion, Sally nodded her head and appeared to agree with her colleagues to avoid confrontation. After this dinner, she decided not spend time with these colleagues outside of work anymore. Comment by Author: What barrier does this reflect? Comment by Author: What barrier does this reflect? Comment by Author: What type of communication style does this demonstrate?

The next day at work, Sally spoke with a customer who wanted to dispute the terms in the warranty for the product. The customer explained to Sally that he understood the terms of the warranty, but the printer was vital to his business. He explained how the ability to print materials equated to his ability to feed his family. He asked if there was any way Sally could help. Sally imagined herself in the customer’s position and decided to find additional options for the customer. In the end, Sally was able to de-escalate the situation and assist the customer. Comment by Author: How does this reflect emotion/reason being used?

This interaction with the customer led her to question their warranty, and she decided to speak with her manager to get it changed. She stated that the current warranty was inadequate because it did not provide customers with enough time to determine if the product would function appropriately. She provided supporting evidence to show that many printers failed only 1 month after the 1-year warranty expired. She also calculated the number of customers with failed printers that bought a replacement printer from the company she worked for. Sally proposed that the warranty be extended to 18 months. Unfortunately, her manager did not agree with her argument nor provide an argument against extending the warranty; instead, he asked, “How can you argue for a change in the warranty when you are late to work most of the time?” Sally decided she would continue to argue for changing the warranty with the company’s leadership, and, after several meetings, Sally was able to get her proposal approved and the warranty extended. Comment by Author: Evaluate this information to determine whether Sally’s argument about the warranty is valid or not. Comment by Author: What fallacy is reflected here?

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