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Portfolio Activity: Critical Thinking in Sport Communication<?xml:namespace prefix=”o” ns=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office”?></o:p>Instructions: Consider the following information (repeated from chapter 13). Then develop your own conclusion about the issue posed, and record it in the “My Argument” section. Finally, use the eight critical thinking questions from chapter 1 to analyze your own reasoning, assumptions, evidence, and other relevant factors.</o:p>

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The Situation</o:p>Given the rapid ascension of nontraditional forms of communication such as message boards, blogs, social media, and microblogging sites, sport communication professionals have found themselves needing to address ways to develop media policies for dealing with these emerging forms of media. </o:p>

The Issue</o:p>Should sport organizations provide credentials to bloggers and other practitioners of new media to cover sporting events? Should sport communications professionals embrace these new technologies by releasing news this way as opposed to releasing information directly to the media first? </o:p>

My Argument</o:p></o:p>

Critical thinking questions</o:p>

Applicable to this situation?</o:p>

1. What are the issues and the conclusion?</o:p>

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Y / N</o:p>

Rationale: </o:p>

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2. What are the reasons?</o:p>

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Y / N</o:p>

Rationale:</o:p>

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3. What words or phrases are ambiguous? </o:p>

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Y / N</o:p>

Rationale:</o:p>

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4. What are the value conflicts and assumptions?</o:p>

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Y / N</o:p>

Rationale:</o:p>

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5. What are the descriptive assumptions? </o:p>

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Y / N</o:p>

Rationale:</o:p>

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6. Does the reasoning contain fallacies?</o:p>

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Y / N</o:p>

Rationale:</o:p>

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7. How good is the evidence?</o:p>

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Y / N</o:p>

Rationale:</o:p>

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8. What significant information is omitted?</o:p>

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Y / N</o:p>

Rationale:</o:p>

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