During the course of the semester I have learned how to better communicate and write using critical thinking. Before this class I knew nothing of fallacies and all the different types of arguments. I now know that a fallacy is a bad argument that is typically unrepairable and that there are different types of fallacies such as structural and content fallacies.
All the concepts I have learned during this course, I feel, have made me a better writer. I can now look through my papers that I have written and see what things I said and understand if parts of it are incorrect. I can spot fallacies, contradictions, and even what types of claims I am using.
Aside from the book learning this class gave me, this course also forced me to learn to have time management. There were times where it was difficult to get all the posts done twelve hours apart, but I feel now that after being forced to manage when I post things, I am better able to manage other time factors in my life.
I too feel that I have also learned to communicate better from this course. I learned how to better understand claims and arguments and how to judge whether they are good or bad. I realized I used many concepts in papers over the years and didn’t know what they were called. I now notice concepts such as vague generalities and how the idea of slippery slope is used a lot of times in shows based around comedy. I didn’t understand fallacies for awhile and then after re-reading the chapter I gained a better understanding of it and was able to recognize it when in use.
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