Critical Thinking Paper # 1.

Value = 70 Points

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Wednesday Night Section:

Final Draft Due Wednesday January 22 in Recitation.
Paper to be graded due Friday, January 24 by 5PM in TA Mailbox, WLKN 104.

10AM, 12PM Sections:

Final Draft due Friday, January 24 in Recitation
Paper to be graded Due Monday, 27 by 5PM in TA Mailbox, WLKN 104.

You can say a lot in a few words, but you have to winnow out the substantive, the relevant, the pertinent from the dross ("stultifying rubbish"--Am. Heritage Dictionary).

Above all, discard the irrelevant." Barbara Tuchman, Historian.

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ~Robert Southey

Good things, when short, are twice as good Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. ~Thomas Jefferson

This paper would be twice as good if it was half as long. Gordon Matzke

Never say in seven words what you can say in three. E. B. White

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