Short Writing and Deep Thinking

1. Short Writing • and • Deep Thinking Richard Price UTB UTMB Oct 10, 2013

2. Gula Nonsense

3. Crit Thinking Barnes/Bedau Cover

4. Barnes/Bedau Chklist

5. How Thnk Clearly Erlandson

6. CT Assessment

7. CrtTnk Resp Care Wood

8. Crt Thnk Resp Care Mishoe/Welch

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10. Two Faced

11. Cromer Uncommon Sense

12. Peter Kugel Nothing worth learn..

13. MOOCs

14. Paragraph Writing • as Panacea • Course content leaves no • time for “extras.”

15. Paragraph Writing • as Panacea • Course content leaves no • time for “extras.” • Subject matter instructors lack • confidence to teach writing.

16. Paragraph Writing • as Panacea Course content leaves no time for “extras.” Subject matter instructors lack confidence to teach writing. Grading is a time sink.

17. How to Implement • Paragraph Writing • with Acceptable Pain • Writing mechanics • Rubric

18. How to Implement • Paragraph Writing • with Acceptable Pain • Writing mechanics • Rubrics

19. Eats Shoots Leaves

20. Popular Student Problems • with Writing Mechanics • Wrong words • Sentence boundaries • Agreement • Antecedents

21. Popular Student Problems • with Writing Mechanics • Wrong words • Sentence boundaries • Agreement • Antecedents • s

22. Childhood is over quickly, but adultery • lasts a long time.

23. Popular Student Problems • with Writing Mechanics • Wrong words • Sentence boundaries • Agreement • Antecedents

24. Roman Greek history Roman and Greek history, a two semester sequence, perhaps the most populous course on campus taken by almost all history majors and many others, including some who thought they would never take a history course.

25. Popular Student Problems • with Writing Mechanics • Wrong words • Sentence boundaries • Agreement • Antecedents

26. One should always be alert for a teaching moment because with a student you can never tell when they will have a major breakthrough.

27. Popular Student Problems • with Writing Mechanics • Wrong words • Sentence boundaries • Agreement • Antecedents

28. Larry said that Moe had taken an awkward swing at Curly and had badly hurt them both.

29. How to Implement • Paragraph Writing • with Acceptable Pain • Writing mechanics • Rubrics

30. Minmalist rubric: • 60% for technical content • 40% for clarity

33. Paragraph “Mechanics”

35. The smallest of the URF's (URFA6L), a 207-nucleotide (nt) reading frame overlapping out of phase the NH2-terminal portion of the adenosinetriphosphatase (ATPase) subunit 6 gene has been identified as the animal equivalent of the recently discovered yeast H+-ATPase subunit 8 gene. The functional significance of the other URF's has been, on the contrary, elusive. Recently, however, Immunoprecipitation experiments with antibodies to purified, rotenone-sensitive NADH-ubiquinone oxido- reductase [hereafter referred to as respiratory chain NADH dehydrogenase or complex I] from bovine heart, as well a enzyme fractionation studies, have indicated that six human URF's (that is, URF1, URF2, URF3, URF4, URF4L, and URF5, hereafter referred to as ND1, ND2, ND3, ND4, ND4L, and ND5) encode subunits of complex I. This is a large complex that also contains many subunits synthesized in the cytoplasm.

36. PROMPT • In physics we learn that energy is conserved. Yet we are frequently reminded that we must conserve energy. In a single clear, coherent paragraph resolve this apparent paradox.

37. GOOD ANSWER • Words are used with precise meaning in science. The • word "energy," when used in a physics course, is an example: it means the total amount of all forms of energy, including electrical, chemical, heat energy and so forth. This total cannot be increased or decreased; the universe has a fixed amount of it. The word "energy," however, can have a different meaning when used in newspapers and by politicians; it means energy that is available to do useful work. As we drive our 8,000 lb SUV to school, we are converting the useful chemical energy of gasoline into useless hot exhaust and moving air. Nature conserves all of energy. We must conserve useful energy.

38. GOOD ANSWER • Words are used with precise meaning in science. The • word "energy," when used in a physics course, is an example: it means the total amount of all forms of energy, including electrical, chemical, heat energy and so forth. This total cannot be increased or decreased; the universe has a fixed amount of it. The word "energy," however, can have a different meaning when used in newspapers and by politicians; it means energy that is available to do useful work. As we drive our 8,000 lb SUV to school, we are converting the useful chemical energy of gasoline into useless hot exhaust and moving air. Nature conserves all of energy. We must conserve useful energy.

39. GOOD ANSWER • Words are used with precise meaning in science. The • word "energy," when used in a physics course, is an example: it means the total amount of all forms of energy, including electrical, chemical, heat energy and so forth. This total cannot be increased or decreased; the universe has a fixed amount of it. The word "energy," however, can have a different meaning when used in newspapers and by politicians; it means energy that is available to do useful work. As we drive our 8,000 lb SUV to school, we are converting the useful chemical energy of gasoline into useless hot exhaust and moving air. Nature conserves all of energy. We must conserve useful energy.

40. GOOD ANSWER • Words are used with precise meaning in science. The • word "energy," when used in a physics course, is an example: it means the total amount of all forms of energy, including electrical, chemical, heat energy and so forth. This total cannot be increased or decreased; the universe has a fixed amount of it. The word "energy," however, can have a different meaning when used in newspapers and by politicians; it means energy that is available to do useful work. As we drive our 8,000 lb SUV to school, we are converting the useful chemical energy of gasoline into useless hot exhaust and moving air. Nature conserves all of energy. We must conserve useful energy.

41. GOOD ANSWER • Words are used with precise meaning in science. The • word "energy," when used in a physics course, is an example: it means the total amount of all forms of energy, including electrical, chemical, heat energy and so forth. This total cannot be increased or decreased; the universe has a fixed amount of it. The word "energy," however, can have a different meaning when used in newspapers and by politicians; it means energy that is available to do useful work. As we drive our 8,000 lb SUV to school, we are converting the useful chemical energy of gasoline into useless hot exhaust and moving air. Nature conserves all of energy. We must conserve useful energy.

42. GOOD ANSWER • Words are used with precise meaning in science. The • word "energy," when used in a physics course, is an example: it means the total amount of all forms of energy, including electrical, chemical, heat energy and so forth. This total cannot be increased or decreased; the universe has a fixed amount of it. The word "energy," however, can have a different meaning when used in newspapers and by politicians; it means energy that is available to do useful work. As we drive our 8,000 lb SUV to school, we are converting the useful chemical energy of gasoline into useless hot exhaust and moving air. Nature conserves all of energy. We must conserve useful energy.

43. GOOD ANSWER • Words are used with precise meaning in science. The • word "energy," when used in a physics course, is an example: it means the total amount of all forms of energy, including electrical, chemical, heat energy and so forth. This total cannot be increased or decreased; the universe has a fixed amount of it. The word "energy," however, can have a different meaning when used in newspapers and by politicians; it means energy that is available to do useful work. As we drive our 8,000 lb SUV to school, we are converting the useful chemical energy of gasoline into useless hot exhaust and moving air. Nature conserves all of energy. We must conserve useful energy.

44. GOOD ANSWER • Words are used with precise meaning in science. The • word "energy," when used in a physics course, is an example: it means the total amount of all forms of energy, including electrical, chemical, heat energy and so forth. This total cannot be increased or decreased; the universe has a fixed amount of it. The word "energy," however, can have a different meaning when used in newspapers and by politicians; it means energy that is available to do useful work. As we drive our 8,000 lb SUV to school, we are converting the useful chemical energy of gasoline into useless hot exhaust and moving air. Nature conserves all of energy. We must conserve useful energy.

45. GOOD ANSWER • Words are used with precise meaning in science. The • word "energy," when used in a physics course, is an example: it means the total amount of all forms of energy, including electrical, chemical, heat energy and so forth. This total cannot be increased or decreased; the universe has a fixed amount of it. The word "energy," however, can have a different meaning when used in newspapers and by politicians; it means energy that is available to do useful work. As we drive our 8,000 lb SUV to school, we are converting the useful chemical energy of gasoline into useless hot exhaust and moving air. Nature conserves all of energy. We must conserve useful energy.

46. Paragraphs You Will • Receive

47. PROMPT • A student who receives high grades has gotten more from his or her college education than a student who receives low grades. Tuition therefore should be based on the grade point average. At the end of a semester students with low grades should receive a rebate.

48. RESPONSE 1 • Students must learn fairness as well as subject matter. I feel that the proposed system wouldn’t be right and just. It would not be a fair system. I have always felt that the grading system was fair and I am passionate about fairness. I would feel very bad about the proposed change.

49. RESPONSE 2 • Tuition is way too high. Students go to college to achieve a better life. Many of these students are poor. High tuition means that a student who is poor is destined to remain poor. College education is free in the more progressive countries of Western Europe; it should be free here also.

50. RESPONSE 3 • Grades are standardized measurements of varying levels of comprehension within a subject area. The GPA can be used by potential employers or further post-secondary institutions to assess and compare applicants. Tuition payments are charged by educational institutions to assist with funding of staff and faculty course offerings, lab equipment, computer systems, libraries, facility upkeep and to provide a comfortable student learning experience.