Question: Purpose of Assignment: For this assignment, the student will create an argumentative essay explaining what makes a good business decision. This allows students to use critical thinking in their research to identify the importance of deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning.
Assignment Steps: Review the "Writing Argumentative Essays" section in Ch. 3 of Critical Thinking.
Write a 950-word argumentative essay on your approved business decision (refer to "Controversial Business Decisions") including the following:
• Describe in detail the business decision and the circumstances that precipitated the decision. Identify the primary stakeholders or groups of stakeholders.
• Describe the decision making process which was used.
• Discuss why the business decision was good or not good for business.
• Define the term "good" for the purpose of this situation.
• Throughout the essay. identify the premise and conclusion by placing a number in bold at the beginning of the sentence with the word premise or conclusion. For example: (1, Premise), (2, Premise), (1, Conclusion), (2, Conclusion). A minimull of six premises and conclusions should be identified.
• Sentences labeled as "1, premise" are premises for the sentence labeled as "1, conclusion."
• All premises should be labeled for each conclusion in the essay. If a sentence is a conclusion and a premise for another conclusion, place two labels.
• At the end of the paper, identify one example of how you used deductive reasoning and one example of how you used inductive reasoning.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.