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Critical Thinking: Improve Reasoning & Communication Skills
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Critical Thinking: Improve Reasoning & Communication Skills

Basic guide for the development of critical thinking skills focused on argumentation
Created byElly Pirocacos
Last updated 1/2016
English

What you'll learn

  • Detect poor reasoning strategies
  • Detect hidden and false assumptions in yourself and others
  • Identify valid and sound arguments
  • Distinguish deductive from inductive arguments
  • Identify common fallacies

Course content

4 sections • 11 lectures • 1h 14m total length

  • Elly's Credentials and Professional Background1:31
  • Netiquette1:34

    Netiquette emphasizes proper web etiquette to foster a respectful, constructive online learning environment through active participation, cordial exchanges, and disagreement as a positive learning experience, free from profanity and discrimination.

Requirements

  • Students don't require any prior knowledge to take this course.

Description

In this course you will develop critical thinking skills. Specifically, you'll learn

  • what critical thinking is
  • what arguments are
  • how to construct good/valid arguments
  • the difference between deductive and inductive arguments
  • some of the classic fallacies, like the red herring, ad hominem and false dilemma

This is a hands-on course, that has direct and immediate applicability. You will be able to detect poor reasoning strategies in yourself and others, acquire greater clarity of thought, become more precise, and proficient at the presentation of arguments in defence of your beliefs.

What are you going to get out of this course? You will become aware of your own thinking processes and better able to detect hidden and false assumptions, you will become better communicators, open-minded, less judgmental, yet confident in your judgments.


Who this course is for:

  • Everyone should take this course!
  • This course is aimed at the development of critical thinking skills which can boost anyone's skill set and positively impact their effectiveness in all decision making contexts - as parents, employees, employers, students, etc.

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