Reasoning Article Reviews Samples For Students

Description

The article at hand refers to the thoughts and ideas of scholars who observed the process of analytical reasoning and found some useful tips and suggestions for making it effective. The first thing that the article pays attention to is that it is better to find approximate answer to the correct question than completely correct answer to the wrong one. The degree of information loss and misleading is far much in the last case. The choice of the problem is crucially important for the effective reasoning and qualitative analytical work.
Another striking point is that evidence is crucially important ...

Critical Thinking and Clinical Reasoning

Introduction
Critical thinking is the process by which nurses define clients’ problems, examine evidence-based practice and make a rational choice in the delivery of care. The fact that health care is a systematic process that involves the assessment of the current health situation, planning interventions and evaluating the outcome calls for critical thinking and clinical reasoning. Critical thinking is necessary since it makes nurses rely on facts in their efforts to promote positive patient care outcomes.

The article examines the teaching in class and the way it addresses the need for nurses to engage in critical thinking as the ...

Introduction to Social research

Earl Babbie has begun with the logical reasoning based assertions which are often used to justify ones stand in sociological context. He gives the example of malnutrition of black athletes and AIDS for gays to explain that the relation between the stated assertion and reasoning often defaults on logical parameters. He has explained that examples quoted above are merely a lopsided generalization of those assumptions which might be true for a very limited number of cases in reality (Babbie, 2001). For example, due to excessive Islamic extremism the Middle East and Asian countries are suspicious of general Muslims to ...

Article Memo

The research is aimed at answering the question: Does Hard Work Help Students to "Make the Grade"?
Does the article use nomothetic or idiographic explanations? Explain how it does this to show that you understand the concepts.
The article uses nomothetic explanations; this is because the explanations seem to be based on the statistical concepts and laws that govern the fields of both qualitative and quantitative research. It uses the concepts of regression and correlation as in the statistical analysis to determine whether hard work help the students make the grade. The nomothetic methods as used in the ...

The Corporations Act of 2001 (Cth) is at times referred to simply as the Corporations Act. This is generally the actual act of the Commonwealth of Australia that overly sets out the laws and regulations that deal with various business entities within the borderlines of Australia. The scope and geographical jurisdiction with reference to the Corporations Act is applicable at both federal and interstate levels. The main focus of the Corporations Act, just as its respective name suggests is on companies. However, this aspect is not so entirely as various partnerships and also managed investment structures are within the ...

Play is important for a child’s development regardless of the background or physical attributes. Scholars have done extensive research on the topic and found at that play has an important role in learning, acquisition of social skills, creativity, emotional wellbeing, and good physical health just to mention a few. Although play has several benefits, its value is determined by the socio-cultural, historical, educational, economic, and political factors of the society (Nahar & Corine, 2012).
Guest (2013)’s study provides some insight on how play is perceived differently depending on culture. In Chicago, play is part of a child’s development process ...

The following is the critique of the research article titled: “Measuring the nursing workload per shift in the ICU”.

Research problem/purpose: The purpose of the study is to evaluate the differences in nursing workload between consecutive shifts, using a nursing workload measurement tool. The aim of the study is to measure the workload of nurses between two consecutive shift using the Nursing Activities Score (NAS). This study is designed to solve a common problem related to handling of nursing manpower in the ICU. The research is in line with existing knowledge about man power placement and workload. This research addresses an important issue pertinent to managing the global problem of nurses man power shortage and finding ways to ...

Introduction

Cognitive Behavioral Interventions are approaches that use soft instruments to correct or enhance behavioral characteristics of individuals, either to comply with society expectations or to unlearn a particular behavior. A person with a drugs problem may be trained to handle the urges of taking drugs and avoidance of risky situations, with an aim of solving the problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy, commonly referred to as CBT, teaches the subjects a new set of skills designed to increase awareness of thoughts and emotions of an individual. The idea is to re-empower the individual to understand how certain exposures to situations, people ...

The present paper compares and contrasts the submitted answers to similar test questions between three different students. The three answer sets will be referred to as “my answer,” “Inman answer,” and “Soelyn answer” for clarity and ease of reference. Each of the tests is seven questions long and each question is in an extended essay format. For extended essay questions, the primary answer components can generally be categorized into three areas: content, organization, and stylistic aspects. A complete comparison and contrast of the three essay answers therefore involves serial examination of each of these areas to determine what is ...

The Moral Instinct by Steven Pinker

Harvard Professor Steven Pinker, in his The New York article, “The Moral Instinct,” goes on to discuss his sixth or moral sense. His argument is that individuals’ moral sense can be explained using “game theory, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology.” He presented his argument as a double-sided yet balanced view of the subject on morality. He talked about moral relativism and moral illusions, as well as, the embeddedness of morality in people.
Pinker claimed that there are various explanations to morality or moral sense. What people thought of as the most admirable trait in a person may actually be the reversed ...

This news article is about the anti-Islam rally, which was held in Dearborn, Michigan. The public protesters assembled to complete one of the planned 20-weekend rallies near mosques across the United States. It was a protest over their opposition to the coming of Syrian refugees, as well as against what they claim to be the danger brought about by the Muslim faith. The rally was met with counter-protest that made the city officials concerned about the event because both groups “brandished AK47 or AR15 rifles”(Warikoo). Nevertheless, the protest went on peacefully and the message that stuck came from ...

This paper aims to review an article that discusses gender biased in the classroom. Throughout the article there is a discussion about the biased and how sometimes teachers don’t even realize it is happening. Sometimes students even allow other people’s views and outspoken bias effect how they feel about their own work. This paper will not only discuss a review or a summary of the research and the paper but will also critique the article and the research as well. It is the goal of this paper to not only give a summary but to discuss information that was provided, how ...

Question 1

Robert McNamara was the eight secretary of state for the US administration; he served under two presidents. Robert takes us through what transpired in the USA after world war two. The presence of the nuclear weapons was a threat to the US government in administering all kinds of war that it struck across Europe. The attacks at Tokyo, Japan are some of the main highlights of the application of the nuclear weapons. Plenty of civilians were killed as a result of a misguided war.
McNamara also takes us through the journey of how he moved from being the president of Ford ...

Robinson’s article “On Various Kinds of Thinking” explores the philosophers’ perspective of intelligence verses the contemporary view of intelligence. The shaping of human affairs borders on the manner in which we think. The philosophers held the opinion that mind is separate from the body and it influences human reasoning. While this has been the view passed from one generation to the next, Robison seems to hold the view that the body and the mind function together. Thus, when the body is sick, the mind would be sick.
In one way or the other, the longing of a person ...

Article Review: “Has Psychology Failed?” by Jastrow

Article Review: “Has Psychology Failed?” by Jastrow
The article “Has Psychology Failed?” by Jastrow (1935) addresses the issues facing applied psychology and the limitations imposed by different schools of psychology, such as behaviorism and the psychoanalytic school. Even though he commends Watson’s desire to move psychology from theoretical science to applied science and Freud’s appreciation of the importance of emotions and subconscious mental processes in structuring the human mind, Jastrow believes a naturalist perspective would benefit psychology as a unified science with practical implications. However, most of the article is dedicated to lamenting the current state of psychology ...

Introduction

The article is based on critics on idea of knowledge and appreciation. It tries to alienate the differences that are there in the two situations. That is, the situation of having knowledge about something and having to appreciate something play distinct but different roles on decision-making (Halley 2008). The article tries to bring out the idea of the decisions that one comes up with. It also brings out an idea of the factors and reasons behind a specific idea. Precisely, the article tries to answer the question; what decisions people make and the factors that lead to the decisions.
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Charles E. Lindblom. The Science of “Muddling Through.” 1959.
Thesis: According to Charles, the United States bureaucracy uses bounded rationality and limited policy analysis in formulating regulations. He states that root analysis is a more comprehensive approach for decision-making than branch analysis. Charles, however, argues that policy makers lack the intellectual capacity to accomplish a root analysis, hence the lack of policy developments in organizations. The author states that a rational decision-making approach is not possible and explains why political maneuvering in decision-making was favorable.

“In the United States, for example, no part of government attempts a comprehensive overview of policy” (165)

“Limits on human intellectual capacities and on available information set definite limits to man’s capacity ...

Summary Reaction Journal

Patrick tells a story of high academic performance being passed down generationally in a family. He seems to believe that since one is from a family where most members have succeeded academically they must also perform outstandingly. This is a distorted view as there are so many other factors that determine ones academic abilities rather than family or background as people are born different, go into different schools and also undergo various difficulties at personal level.
Amy Chua makes a vague generalization by saying that Chinese mothers can get away with things that the western mothers cant. This is overrating the Chinese mothers ...

- What is the writer's claim or thesis? Ask yourself:
The writer claims that the people are poor because the government has a hand in it. In this article, Cove is surprised that though people are blind folded that there is a fight against poverty in the society, almost all the activists and other interested groups rejoice and benefit from the expanding number of the people who receive public assistance.
2. What claim is being asserted?
Cove says that only work will do away with poverty. He says that work expands an individual’s capacity to economic self ...

This paper is a critique on Professor Orin Kerr’s article An Equilibrium-Adjustment Theory of the Fourth Amendment. In the article, he articulates an equilibrium-adjustment theory arguing that the amendment should be construed as aimed at maintaining the balance of power amid government and the citizens. This theory is based on originalism; essentially that the original purpose of the amendment should be the principal guide to its application, whether by the courts or the government and its assigns. From a philosophical perspective, this theory is outstanding, but in reality it poses great challenges given that the circumstances existing then are no ...

This article examines issues that can arise as the result of surrogacy. The author states that even though the parents appear on the birth certificate this can be reversed. The challenge of determining who the legal guardian is is challenging. Because of this most surrogacies are gestational. The author states that issues of discrimination can arise when speaking about an infertile parent versus a fertile parent. The ethical issues include this discrimination. It also calls to question if parentage should be reversed legally. Legally this presents many issues.
This article looks at the issues surrounding a patient’s ability to ...

Article Documentation:

Laura M Koehly. Adolescent obesity and social networks.2009. Retrieved from; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2722403/

Briefly, State the Main Idea of this Article.

The article by Laura describes obesity as a chronic disease that is facing many people in the world. The major message that the author communicates to people reading the article is that obesity is caused by a combination of factors and specifically the interaction between biological factors and the environment one lives in. The aim of the article is to create awareness to the people on the causes of obesity so that the condition can be prevented where possible. The article argues that biological and environmental factors interact ...