"Generating Topic Ideas."
1. Choose a topic from the list in Appendix A of the student course guide. NOTE: The topic you choose for this exercise will be the basis of your "Critical Thinking Paper" due in Week 10.
2. On a piece of paper or in a Word document on your computer, use the "brainstorming" technique, "starbursting technique," and "Five Ws for Journalists" technique to generate ideas for your topic.
3. In the threaded discussion -
o State which topic you chose and the reasons why you chose the topic.
o Identify which of the three techniques was the most productive for you as a way of generating ideas. Explain why.
o State which of these techniques you think you might use for future writing projects. Explain why.

Critical Thinking - PHI 210Appendix A Dieting makes people fat.

• People are too dependent on computers.
• Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is an excuse and not a real disability.
• The government spends too much on art, so the NEA should be eliminated.
• Today's Bachelor Degrees are a minimum, like high school diplomas were 30 years ago.
• "Home-schooled" children are more advanced than children attending public schools.
• Telecommuting will be the new way that jobs are performed in the next ten years.
• The war on terror has contributed to abuse of human rights.
• People with jobs should pay the health care insurance costs of people without jobs.
• High school graduates should take a year off before entering college.
• High school graduates should be required to spend two years in the military and then receive a free college

education.

• The flat tax is the fairest form of taxation.
• All products that people eat/use should be first tested on animals.

• All citizens should be required by law to vote.