Terminology- The study of words and their use.
Critical Thinking: Evaluate what we have read or heard, asking critical questions, being able to ask and answer critical questions, and the desire to actively use.
Sponge and Panning for Gold: Alternative Thinking Styles: The sponge approach to thinking is absorbing, using active participating by absorbing what is read. The panning for gold approach is a model for active readers and listeners as they try to determine the worth of what they read and hear by asking frequently questions on the author.
Issue: An issue is a question or controversy responsible for the conversations or discussion. It is the stimulus for what is being said.
Conclusion: A conclusion is the message that the speaker or writer wishes to use.
Reasons: Reasons are explanations or rationales for why we should believe a particular conclusion.
Argument: Argument consists of a conclusion and the reasons that allegedly support it.
Ambiguity: The existence of the multiple possible meaning for a word or phrase.
Loaded Language: Is wording intended to produce an emotional response.
Fallacies: A fallacy is a reasoning "trick" that an author might use while trying to persuade you to accept a conclusion.
Sponge and Panning for Gold: Alternative Thinking Styles: The sponge approach to thinking is absorbing, using active participating by absorbing what is read. The panning for gold approach is a model for active readers and listeners as they try to determine the worth of what they read and hear by asking frequently questions on the author.
Issue: An issue is a question or controversy responsible for the conversations or discussion. It is the stimulus for what is being said.
Conclusion: A conclusion is the message that the speaker or writer wishes to use.
Reasons: Reasons are explanations or rationales for why we should believe a particular conclusion.
Argument: Argument consists of a conclusion and the reasons that allegedly support it.
Ambiguity: The existence of the multiple possible meaning for a word or phrase.
Loaded Language: Is wording intended to produce an emotional response.
Fallacies: A fallacy is a reasoning "trick" that an author might use while trying to persuade you to accept a conclusion.