revision ssl101c

 Communication skills are taught at university to: Check two options

• A. Help students better prepare for future career

  
  

• B. Help students communicate with school staff when you have problems

  
  

• C. Help students build up their learning network

  
  

• D. Help students criticize effectively

  
  

• E. Help students communicate online

  
  

Which is NOT a proposal when participating in Group Work? 

• A. "We could start by searching for the information."

  
  

• B. "Why don't we ask for more instruction from the lecturer?"

  
  

• C. "The first thing to do is to create a plan."

  
  

• D. "How about presenting our outline for the lecturer's feedback?"

  
  

Which of the following is a problem?

• A. 2+3 = ?

• B. 12 x 20 = ?

  
  

• C. Remember the name of the old song on the radio

  
  

• D. You want to go for a movie but don't know where the cinema is

  
  

Consider the following statement.

"A failure to act on threats made on social media sites by both the government and authorities has led to female users abandoning certain sites."

What type of argument is this?

• A. Argument from analogy

  
  

• B. Generalization

  
  

• C. Causal argument

  
  

• D. Quasilogical argument

  
  

To avoid plagiarism, what should you do?

• A. Understand what referencing is.

  
  

• B. Reference any distinctive or unique ideas that you use in your work, cite any kind of distinctive structure or organizing strategy.

  
  

• C. Cite where you got a statistic, a quote, or any kind of fact that's outside of common knowledge.

  
  

• D. All above are correct.

  
  

Which of the following is NOT academic misconduct?

• A. Plagiarism

  
  

• B. Cheating

  
  

• C. Fabrication or falsification of data or results

  
  

• D. Facilitation of academic misconduct of another student

  
  

• E. Laziness

  
  

Consider the following statement:

"The adorable girl entered the stage in gorgeous attire". How is bias displayed in this statement?

• A. Use of emotive language

  
  

• B. Ad hominem

  
  

• C. Appealing to membership of a common group

  
  

• D. Use of logical connectors and appealing to membership of a common group

  
  

Which is NOT an example of common fallacies?

• A. Hasty generalization

  
  

• B. Jumping from correlation to cause

  
  

• C. Straw man fallacy

  
  

• D. Misinterpretation of reasoning

  
  

• E. Faulty analogy

  
  

"Business students might be asked to list a number of solutions to a business problem in a business document" is an example of a(an)

• A. technique

  
  

• B. argument

  
  

• C. report

  
  

• D. recommendation

  
  

A student is asked to do an ethnic factor analysis of a movie. The student already has strong opinions about both ethnic characteristics, sovereignty and the film they must analyze. However, they make a mental note of their biases when conducting research. Instead of giving a subjective opinion, the student makes sure they read sources representing a variety of different views.

Which of the following dispositions or habits of mind for critical thinking is the student displaying?

• A. Being systemic in your thinking

  
  

• B. Self-confidence

  
  

• C. Inquisitiveness

  
  

• D. Metacognition