In this section, you will have the opportunity to identify and improve specific skills related to critical thinking. Once you have mastered these simple examples, you can go on to critical thinking exercises that more closely resemble real life.

As a good first activity, clip out a short paragraph from any newspaper article or editorial. The paragraph is likely to follow a pattern, presenting a fact, interpreting the fact for you, then persuading you to do something about it. Bring it into class and we can dissect the paragraph, so you can identify what tools are being used in the argument.