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Argumentation and Critical Thinking Tutorial

  • By Eduardo Magalhaes III
  • Aug 17, 2016
  • Filed in CC1 Argument Instruction, CC2 Interpretation Instruction, Inclusion and Bias Awareness, Online Activity, SLO3 Evaluate Argument, Text

The tutorials consist of a series of tests to help reinforce knowledge and understanding of some basic concepts associated with making arguments and thinking critically. It specifically focuses on the Classical Logical Structure of Arguments and Informal Argumentative Fallacies.

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Strengths

The opportunity for students to do quizzes outside of class is valuable, and there are different options for true/false or multiple choice quizzes.

Concerns

The topics are a little narrow and the tutorials provide only the most basic coverage of the topics – additional coverage of the topics would seem to be necessary. In addition, one of the samples includes the

Recommendations for use

The professor could assign specific tutorials and quizzes to pre-test knowledge of various issues related to Critical Thinking.