Ashley Baxter Hum115 R1 Problem Solving
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Problem Solving
Using the five steps from Ch. 5 of Thinking Critically, create a plan for solving a problem you are currently facing. For the last step, identify how you will determine the effectiveness of your chosen solution.
Step 1: What is the problem?
I have had problems dividing time between my family and my husbands family!
Step 2: What are the alternatives?
Move into a house with my husband and I
Step 3: What are the advantages and/or disadvantages of each alternative?
The advantage people would be able to come and see me when I wanted. The disadvantage would be taking on all the bills that come with having my own home.
Step 4: What is the solution?
I need to make more time to see each side of our familys more fair.
Step 5: How well is the solution working?
With school it has been difficult to make time for both sides of the family.
Write a 100- to 150- word reflection about this process. How did this process help you devise a solution? How can you use this process with future problems? Will this work for all problems you face? Why or why not?
This showed me that I can have another soluation to the problem I am having with my time to see both sides of the family. But I know that in the long run it will work out as soon as we can get our own place and not living with family. I believe it will work for me in the future if by me being able to sit down and look at a problem and working though it with more them one solution and can be a great tool in the future. I believe I cant use it for all problems I have in the future, because some problem I have run into I have had to use more and long steps to solves the problems.
Problem Solving
Using the five steps from Ch. 5 of Thinking Critically, create a plan for solving a problem you are currently facing. For the last step, identify how you will determine the effectiveness of your chosen solution.
Step 1: What is the problem?
I have had problems dividing time between my family and my husbands family!
Step 2: What are the alternatives?
Move into a house with my husband and I
Step 3: What are the advantages and/or disadvantages of each alternative?
The advantage people would be able to come and see me when I wanted. The disadvantage would be taking on all the bills that come with having my own home.
Step 4: What is the solution?
I need to make more time to see each side of our familys more fair.
Step 5: How well is the solution working?
With school it has been difficult to make time for both sides of the family.
Write a 100- to 150- word reflection about this process. How did this process help you devise a solution? How can you use this process with future problems? Will this work for all problems you face? Why or why not?
This showed me that I can have another soluation to the problem I am having with my time to see both sides of the family. But I know that in the long run it will work out as soon as we can get our own place and not living with family. I believe it will work for me in the future if by me being able to sit down and look at a problem and working though it with more them one solution and can be a great tool in the future. I believe I cant use it for all problems I have in the future, because some problem I have run into I have had to use more and long steps to solves the problems.