Re:Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills
by plinkplonk on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @04:22AM
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IRAC = Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion (I had to look it up)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRAC
now I wish I'd gone to law school!
Re:Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills
by pvg on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @05:34AM
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That sort of thing can just as well make you wish you'd gone to real estate school.
"A-I-D-A. Attention, interest, decision, action. Attention -- do I have your attention? Interest -- are you interested? I know you are because it's fuck or walk. You close or you hit the bricks! Decision -- have you made your decision for Christ?!! And action."
Re:Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills
by plinkplonk on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @07:42AM
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Thank You for the condescension! :-P
Re:Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills
by belenos46 on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @12:32PM
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It's a quote from Glengarry Glen Ross. That is one of Alec Baldwin's lines.
Re:Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills
by plinkplonk on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @01:15PM
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Ah! It sounded familiar.
OK, my bad! withdrawn (Can't edit any more). Apologies to pvg
Re:Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills
by closure on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @02:40AM
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YMMV, but only in the last two years of high school do I recall these five-paragraph essays being a substantial part of classes. We certainly did them from time-to-time before that, but we also did a lot of other writing of many different forms, and in the last year or two also did a couple "research papers" (in the classic sense, not in the grad student moving a field forward sense).
That's not really true; the five-paragraph essay form and it's fractal expansions that dominate grade-school writing is all about clarity and focus on meaning.
It's a horrible as a model for anything other than persuasive writing for a number of other reasons, and given the way the target output influences process, it's an impediment to critical thinking compared to alternatives like thesis/antithesis/synthesis (or IRAC, which while pretty much taught exclusively in the context of legal writing is a very good model for general-purpose analytical writing.)