Reminder:  All assignments must be handed in on time to get credit.  All assignments must be typed.  You can single space assignments, and none are expected to take you more than 30 minutes to do or one page to write (unless otherwise indicated).  My suggestion is to read the assignment and then read the chapters so that the assignment will guide your reading.

Assignment 6

Ch 6 Preparing for Discussion

1.  Where are the five suggestions for researching a problem?

2.  Which one would be most useful for each of the following discussions, and why?

A. The death penalty.

B. Where to build a campus student center.

C. Whether you should take a course online.

D. Whether to ban alcohol from campus.

3. Answer the questions below about any problem on campus.

A. What is the problem? – define specifically.

B. What is the question of policy? – what should be done?

C. What is the nature of the problem?  -- parameters, limits, conditions, history.

D. Whom does the problem affect? – whose problem is it?

E. How serious is the problem? – what differences is there in perception of seriousness?

F. What are the causes of the problem? – is it fact or is it inferred? If fact, true? If inferred, good?

G. What solutions have been tried? – who, when, and what was done before?

H. What will happen if the problem is not solved? – What are the perceptions on this?

I. What are the constraints? --- what does the solution have to include or exclude?

J. What are 5 solutions? 

4. Give an original example of each of these fallacies:

A. Overgeneralizing.

B. Causal fallacy

B. False analogy.

C. Either-or thinking.

D. Ad hominem.

5. Fujishin cites six ways to be an ethical group member. Select any one of the ways and give an example of how someone might behave unethically.