Purpose
of Assignment
For this assignment, the
student will create an argumentative essay explaining what makes a good
business decision. This allows students to use critical thinking in their
research to identify the importance of deductive reasoning and inductive
reasoning.
Assignment
Steps
Review the “Writing Argumentative Essays”
section in Ch. 3 ofCritical Thinking.
Write a 1,050-word argumentative essay on your
approved business decision including the following:
·
Discuss why the business
decision is good or not good for business.
·
Define the term
“good” for the purpose of this situation.
·
Identify the premise and
conclusion by placing a number in bold at the beginning of the sentence with
the wordpremise orconclusion. For example: (1, Premise), (2, Premise), (1,
Conclusion), (2, Conclusion).
o
Sentences labeled as “1,
premise” are premises for the sentence labeled as “1,
conclusion.”
o
All premises should be labeled
for each conclusion in the article. If a sentence is a conclusion and a premise
for another conclusion, place two labels.
o
At the end of the paper,
identify one example of how you used deductive reasoning and one example of how
you used inductive reasoning.
