Critical Thinking Tools
Critical thinking skills are some of the most important skills you can develop during your college career. The links offered here connect you to tips on how to improve your critical thinking acumen with logic puzzles, online articles, flow charts, and tutorials.
- Analyzing Controversy: An Introductory Guide
- Available for purchase, Analyzing Controversy is McGraw-Hill/Dushkin's field
guide to analyzing argumentative essays. With eighteen chapters in a 192-page, concise, easy-to-use format, Analyzing Controversy works you through problems of understanding, fact, value, and logic. Get the most out of what you read with Analyzing Controversy.
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Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project
- This is an effective Web vehicle enabling the learner to organize and
logically analyze any subject according to formal philosophical methods. Valid and invalid premises are illustrated both as basic concepts and as they relate to specific subjects.
- /cthink: The Critical Thinking Community
- Sponsored by the Center for Critical Thinking, the Foundation for Critical
Thinking, the International Center for the Assessment of Higher Order
Thinking, the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking, and Sonoma
State University, this site provides educators, students, and the public with
a wealth of information about the theory and practice of critical thinking.
- Mission: Critical
- Mission: Critical is an interactive tutorial for critical thinking that
can be used with almost any critical thinking textbook, simply by following
that text's order when choosing the independent subject modules from the site.
Through immediate reinforcement for right and wrong answers to a series of
increasingly complex exercises, you will begin to utilize the essential tools
of intellectual analysis of formal arguments. Topics include inductive and deductive arguments, syllogisms, fallacies, etc.
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