Thursday, March 25, 2010
Usefulness of Critical Thinking of a Social Organization
I found the second major class assignment of Critical Thinking of a Social Organization to be very helpful both professionally and academically. My group chose to analyze the ASPCA and their social issue. Because I personally am an animal lover and advocate I find myself easily influenced and persuaded by the social issue of ending animal cruelty, which is the social issue of the ASPCA. What this assignment taught is to be away of the different methods used by organizations to influence and persuade others and also evaluate the credibility of the source and their motivation for making the claims they do before simply just accepting the claim. What I learned from this assignment will not only help me evaluate the sources I use in research papers, and other assignments, but also help me in my professional career which will hopefully be in public relations. It will help me in P.R. by helping create messages for clients that aren’t using fallacy in a bad to inform and persuade the target audience.
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I agree with you that the second major assignment was very useful in professional aspects and academic aspects. I thought that it was nice that the topic your group chose was what you are interested in and can relate to. I agree that this assignment taught us how to analyze how certain organizations use persuasion and influence and how it taught us how to evaluate the credibility and motivation of organizations for making claims. This assignment was helpful in different aspects to me too. I am sure this assignment will help you in your public relations profession in the future.
ReplyDeleteI agree with how this assignment helped us. I believe being knowledgeable about ways some organizations may use false claims, bad reasoning, and fallacies, can ultimately lead to a more informed public. I think a lot of people take what is said too easily and don't stop to think critically about what one is reading or hearing. These organizations speak about tough issues and misleading the public about the issues is not the correct way to go about getting their mission across and accepted. Hopefully the more people who can recognize false claims and fallacies then the more organizations will double check what messages they are conveying to the public.
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