CR02CT

• Critical reasoning: Obstacles to clear thinking
• Introduction
• Course guide
  • Overview
  • Aims
  • Course structure
  • Resources
• Assessment
  • Assesment overview
  • Activity tipes
  • Certification for participation
  • Learning environment
  • E-activities
  • Technologies
  • Ways to engage
• Learning console
  • Learning console
  • WEnotes course aggregated feed
• Courseware
  • Session 1: Introduction to critical reasoning
  • What is critical reasoning?
  • Becoming a critical thinker
  • Thinking for yourself
  • Thinking in an informed way
  • Critical self-reflection
  • Conclusion

• • Session 2: Obstacles to clear thinking
  • Warm-up Exercise
  • Preconceived ideas
  • Try you luck with this riddle
    • Social conditioning (seeing only what we expect to see)
    • Associations
    • Labelling
    • Stereotypes
    • Fallacies
    • Slippery slope argument
    • Examples of slippery slope arguments
    • Straw man argument
    • Begging the question
    • Equivocation
    • Complex question
    • Faulty analogy
    • Ad hominem argument
    • False appeal to authority
    • False dilemma
    • Hasty generalisation