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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.

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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