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Index
The Big Picture
- Exploring
Issues in the Big Picture
- The Big Picture from a Time Management
Perspective
- From the Big Picture Back to the Issues
How to Explore an Issue
Systematically
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From the Big Picture Back to the Issues
In this course and in daily life, you will often need to form
an opinion on an issue that is important to Canada, your community, and
you. Your initial opinion-before you do research-should be based on what
you know and what you value. That's a good way to start, but a
lot of people don't get any further. One reason is that they do not know
how to explore the issue in a way that gets results quickly enough, so
they lose interest or give up. In contrast, you will have got results
quickly many times in many ways by the time you have successfully completed
this course.
How should you explore an issue?
- Systematically?
- Efficiently?
- Fairly?
All of the above. To understand why, read the next parts of the manual.
Each lesson in this course is small,
a fast-moving mini-lesson. Even the assignments and projects are not
very big if you stick to meeting the requirements with care. However,
everything in this course is cumulative. You are climbing a mountain,
but you are doing it in phases and with one quick step at a time on
a comfortable slope.
You will find it easier to investigate issues as you build your knowledge
base and fill out your critical thinking skills.
Your work in one aspect of the course will often help you with another
aspect. For example, you will often be able to draw on your Issues
Log/Dissection project work when you are doing your section assignment
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