EXERCISE 4.15 Synthesizing Your Skills

EXERCISE 4.15 Synthesizing Your Skills

EXERCISE 4.15

Synthesizing Your Skills

As a cumulative activity and to synthesize all the critical thinking strategies you have learned in this chapter, refer to the reading “Superhero or Supervillain?” to answer the following questions.

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1. Using the information you find in the introduction to the reading and in the reading itself, evaluate Will Oremus’s qualifications to write about human enhancement technologies.

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2. What types of evidence does Oremus use to support his ideas? Give several examples, and explain in a sentence or two whether the evidence is relevant.

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3. List at least two inferences Oremus makes and at least one inference the researchers he discusses make. Identify at least three statements of fact and three statements of opinion.

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4. Identify at least five words with positive or negative connotations.

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5. Describe the author’s tone. What effect does the tone have on you as a reader? How effective do you find it?

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6. Identify at least one assumption the author makes.

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7. What generalizations does the author make? List two.

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8. What additional information would you need to evaluate Oremus’s claims about the likelihood of certain kinds of superpowers being used for good or evil?

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9. Based on your analysis, do you think Oremus seems fair or biased? Write a paragraph justifying your answer.

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