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Critical Reading: A Guide

From John Lye's Courses and Sources Pages - A Guide Designed for His Year 1 Students by Professor John Lye

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The Critical Thinking Project: The Critical Thinking Rubric

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7) Identifies and assesses conclusions, implications and consequences.

Emerging

Mastering

Fails to identify conclusions, implications, and
consequences of the issue or the key relationships
between the other elements of the problem, such as
context, implications, assumptions, or data and
evidence.

Identifies and discusses conclusions, implications,
and consequences considering context, assumptions,
data, and evidence.

Objectively reflects upon the their own assertions.
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- 6) Identifies and considers the influence of the context * on the issue.
  
  Emerging
  
  Mastering
  
  Discusses the problem only in egocentric or sociocentric terms.
  
  Does not present the problem as having connections to other
  contexts-cultural, political, etc.
  
  Analyzes the issue with a clear sense of scope and context,
  including an assessment of the audience of the analysis.
  
  Considers other pertinent contexts.
- 5) Identifies and assesses the quality of supporting data/evidence
  and provides additional data/evidence related to the issue.
  
  Emerging
  
  Mastering
  
  Merely repeats information provided, taking it as truth,
  or denies evidence without adequate justification.
  Confuses associations and correlations with cause
  and effect.
  
  Does not distinguish between fact, opinion, and value
  judgments.
  
  Examines the evidence and source of evidence; questions
  its accuracy, precision, relevance, completeness.
  
  Observes cause and effect and addresses existing or potential
  consequences.
  
  Clearly distinguishes between fact, opinion, & acknowledges
  value judgments.
- 4) Identifies and assesses the key assumptions.
  
  Emerging
  
  Mastering
  
  Does not surface the assumptions and ethical issues
  that underlie the issue, or does so superficially.
  
  Identifies and questions the validity of the assumptions
  and addresses the ethical dimensions that underlie the
  issue.
- 3) Identifies and considers OTHER salient perspectives and positions
  that are important to the analysis.
  
  Emerging
  
  Mastering
  
  Deals only with a single perspective and fails
  to discuss other possible perspectives,
  especially those salient to the issue.
  
  Addresses perspectives noted previously, and
  additional diverse perspectives drawn from
  outside information.
- 2) Identifies and presents the STUDENT'S OWN hypothesis, perspective
  and position as it is important to the analysis of the issue.
  
  Emerging
  
  Mastering
  
  Addresses a single source or view of the argument
  and fails to clarify the established or presented
  position relative to one's own. Fails to establish
  other critical distinctions.
  
  Identifies, appropriately, one's own position on the
  issue, drawing support from experience, and information
  not available from assigned sources.
- 1) Identifies and summarizes the problem/question at issue
  (and/or the source's position).
  
  Emerging
  
  Mastering
  
  Does not identify and summarize the problem,
  is confused or identifies a different and
  inappropriate problem.
  
  Does not identify or is confused by the issue,
  or represents the issue inaccurately.
  
  Identifies the main problem and subsidiary,
  embedded, or implicit aspects of the problem,
  and identifies them clearly, addressing their
  relationships to each other.
  
  Identifies not only the basics of the issue,
  but recognizes nuances of the issue.

08 Jun 06

List of cognitive biases

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Rhetorical Planning and Invention

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Useful guide to invention and planning of writing and research topics. - krissanthesquad on 2006-04-14

Big6 Web Guide

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Includes link to Word template of this Internet research guide - krissanthesquad on 2006-03-31

Nuts and Bolts of the Big6

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The phrases "Big6 Skills" and "Big6 Skills Curriculum" are all trademarks of Michael B. Eisenberg and Robert E. Berkowitz. Permission is granted for full educational use of these terms provided that recognition is properly and duly noted. Permission is not granted for commercial use.
Information: The Big6 provides students with a tried and true method to answer a question, complete an assignment, or create a unique product of some sort. Information problem solving is an iterative process, so the steps themselves are not necessarily always completed sequentially or in one single pass. For indepth information about the Big6^TM, start with the Nuts and Bolts of Big6^TM

Logical Fallacy: Fallacy Fallacy

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David Hackett Fischer, Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought (Harper & Row, 1970), pp. 305-306.
To say that an argument is fallacious is to claim that there is no sufficiently strong logical connection between the premisses and the conclusion. This says nothing about the truth-value of the conclusion, so it is unwarranted to conclude that a proposition is false simply because some argument for it is fallacious.
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- Alias:
  
  Argumentum ad Logicam
  
  Fallacist's Fallacy
  
  Type: Bad Reasons Fallacy
  
  Form:
  
  Argument A for the conclusion C is fallacious.
  
  Therefore, C is false.

Virtualology A Virtual Education Project

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Logical Fallacies: The Fallacy Files

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29 May 06

Illuminations: The Critical Theory Project

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01 May 06

Changing minds and persuasion

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27 Apr 06

Butterflies and Wheels - Fighting Fashionable Nonsense

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Butterflies and Wheels has been established in order to oppose a number of related phenomena. These include:

1. Pseudoscience that is ideologically and politically motivated.
2. Epistemic relativism in the humanities (for example, the idea that statements are only true or false relative to particular cultures, discourses or language-games).
3. Those disciplines or schools of thought whose truth claims are prompted by the political, ideological and moral commitments of their adherents, and the general tendency to judge the veracity of claims about the world in terms of such commitments.

There are two motivations for setting up the web site. The first is the common one having to do with the thought that truth is important, and that to tell the truth about the world it is necessary to put aside whatever preconceptions (ideological, political, moral, etc.) one brings to the endeavour.

The second has to do with the tendency of the political Left (which both editors of this site consider themselves to bee part of) to subjugate the rational assessment of truth-claims to the demands of a variety of pre-existing political and moral frameworks. We believe this tendency to be a mistake on practical as well as epistemological and ethical grounds. Alan Sokal expressed this concern well, when talking about his motivation for the Sokal Hoax: ‘My goal isn't to defend science from the barbarian hordes of lit crit (we'll survive just fine, thank you), but to defend the Left from a trendy segment of itself. Like innumerable others from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, I call for the Left to reclaim its Enlightenment roots.’ (Reply to Social Text Editorial) - krissanthesquad on 2006-04-27

Political Correctness - Critical Thinking on the Web

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Multiculturalists are the real racists by Mark Steyn
Another biting discussion from Steyn. Western societies have a Muslim rape problem, which is fostered by multiculturalist pieties and denials. "I'm not a racist, only a culturist. I believe Western culture -- rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. -- is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in Scandinavia, and four Scandinavians in Syria. Follow the traffic. I support immigration, but with assimilation. Without it, like a Hindu widow, we're slowly climbing on the funeral pyre of our lost empires. You see it in European foreign policy already: they're scared of their mysterious, swelling, unstoppable Muslim populations."
Political Correctness
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Insofar as something called "political correctness" proscribes certain opinions from being expressed and debated, every critical thinker should be against it - for the reasons explained by J.S. Mill.

Resources
Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion - Chapter 2 of On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Absolute classic. Timeless demonstration of the evils of restraining speech because the speech is supposedly false, offensive, pernicious other otherwise undesirable. If only the evangelists of political correctitude had read and properly understood this great work...
The Flummery Digest by Michael Sierra
Flummery is "a ridiculous, hypocritical, or pretentious ceremony or performance". This site has a monthly digest of Politically Correct flummery.
Upstream
"These pages are a home for the intellectually heterodox, the politically incorrect and other independent thinkers. A home for outlaws. You will find reading lists and book reviews, original essays and commentaries published right here, information about interesting and useful organizations, and links to other Net resources."
The Culture Cult

Website presenting a lifetime's worth of acerbic writings by anthropologist Roger Sandall. "The Culture Cult is about romantic primitivism—the belief that traditional ethnic cultures provide a better home for humanity, more fair, more healthy, more harmonious, than today's free and open civilizaation. In fact, traditional cultures usually have most of the following: domestic oppression, endemic disease, poverty, clan enmity, violence, religious intolerance, and severe artistic constraints. If you want to live a full life, then modern civilization—not romantic ethnicity—deserves your thoughtful vote."
[10 May 04]
The Sydney Line
If you thought there was little more to Sydney than an Opera House, try this: a website presenting chiefly the writings of that audaciously incorrect historian Keith Windschuttle, and more general an attitude or philosophy Windschuttle sees as distinctively Sydneyesque. The website also promotes the ideas and writings of the brilliant Australian philosopher David Stove. [22 June 04]
Essays
Note: I don't always agree with the opinions expressed in these essays. I recommend them because they challenge or discuss political correctness in interesting ways.
Why Don't They Listen to Us? Speaking to the Working Class by Lillian B. Rubin
Thoughtful essay on the role of political correctness in the political Left's loss of connection with the people it supposedly supports. [9 Mar 05]
Tuskegee re-examined by Richard A Shweder
Challenges the dominant conception of the famous Tuskegee study as outrageous racial exploitation. A beautifully crafted piece of critical thinking and writing. Exhibits many epistemic virtues: is cautiously skeptical; questions the official, "correct" stance; does basic research in pursuit of proper evidence; considers alternatives; maintains objectivity and distance. His talk of narratives and counter-narratives is not to my taste, but is only a minor blemish. [22 Jan 04]
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- Website presenting a lifetime's worth of acerbic writings by anthropologist Roger Sandall. "The Culture Cult is about romantic primitivism—the belief that traditional ethnic cultures provide a better home for humanity, more fair, more healthy, more harmonious, than today's free and open civilization. In fact, traditional cultures usually have most of the following: domestic oppression, endemic disease, poverty, clan enmity, violence, religious intolerance, and severe artistic constraints. If you want to live a full life, then modern civilization—not romantic ethnicity—deserves your thoughtful vote."
- Insofar as something called "political correctness" proscribes certain opinions from being expressed and debated, every critical thinker should be against it - for the reasons explained by J.S. Mill.