Past Concept

The one concept that I picked from this semester was the concept of reasoning. I thought that the different types of reasoning was a really useful, as well as interesting because of the many different types of reasoning. Reasoning is probably the biggest concept behind critical thinking. I did not think there were that many different types and kind of reasoning. I just always thought that reasoning was reasoning, and not that it varied in type. You can apply all the different types of reasoning to different aspect of your daily life.
Like for example today, I used Reasoning By Criteria to figure out what to get for my secret Santa. I used Inductive Reasoning to plan ahead for traffic on the freeway, because there is always traffic around that specific time. And Deductive reasoning to figure out what day my Chemistry final would be, because if I had lecture on Monday and Wednesday than the final would take place on Friday.

The types of reasoning are really useful and interesting. Definitely something that you use on a daily basis.

FAVORITE

This was my first online class, so I didn't really knew what to expect. It was a good experience to have, I might enroll in other online classes in the future. I didn't expect the class to have group assignments. Since it is an online class, people probably don't have that much time to begin with if they're taking an online course.
My favorite thing about this course was that it was online. So my schedule was a little bit more open due to this. It allowed me to do the work whenever I wanted.
My least favorite thing was probably the deadlines for stuff. Since it is an online class, I seem to forget about it some times. There is no real reminder for the work and deadlines.
This class can be improved by probably not having group assignments, if it's an online course. But I think the blogs are a good way to learn the concepts.

Overall the class was a good experience itself and the lessons of critical thinking was useful.

Things Learned

Over the whole courses of this semester, we learned a lot of different concepts. For me, when you put them all together, we learned how to build strong arguments. Which is very important in life. Because to me, life is just one big argument for you to fight. To build a strong argument, you must use different types of claims, reasoning, and appeals. Every aspect of life, is going to require a different aspect of claims, reasoning, or appeals. Knowing how to apply those concepts into your arguments, will provide you with a strong argument.  We also learned how to avoid bad arguments. What to and not to do when making an argument. When you know all the rights and wrongs, you will know how to build a good argument. So the one main thing, that I learned from this course was arguments. How to build them, how to analyze them, and how to counter them. Which will certainly be very helpful in life.