Critical Thinking Skills: Developing Effective Analysis and Argument

What’s Critical Thinking
How Well Do You Think? Develop Your Thinking Skills
What’s Their Point? Identifying Arguments
Is It an Argument? Argument and Non Argument
How Well Do They Say It? Clarity, Consistency and Structure
Reading between the Lines: Recognising underlying Assumptions and Implicit Arguments
Does It Add Up? Identifying Flaws in the Argument
Where’s the Proof? Finding and Evaluating Sources of Evidence
Critical Reading and Note Making Critical Selection, Interpretation and Noting of Source Material
Critical, Analytical Writing: Critical Thinking When Writing
Where’s the Analysis? Evaluating Critical Writing
Critical Reflection
Texts for Activities in Chapters 8, 9 and 11
Practice Activities on Longer Texts
Appendix: Selected Search Engines and Databases for On Line Literature Searches