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Enhancing Reasoning Skills: Evaluating Characteristics and Asking Key Questions

Explore the characteristics of good reasoning in various contexts, assess the cause-and-effect relationships, examine generalization reasoning, and apply critical evaluation protocols when analyzing arguments.

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Enhancing Reasoning Skills: Evaluating Characteristics and Asking Key Questions

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  1. Reasoning Evaluation The Characteristics of Good Reasoning & the Corresponding Evaluation Questions

  2. Comparison Reasoning Characteristics: • Important Issues • Detailed Descriptors Questions: • What are other important but unstated issues? • What are important details missing from the descriptors?

  3. CauseEffect Reasoning Characteristics: • Multiple causes/effects • Clear Connections Questions: • What are unstated causes/effects? • How clear are the connections between causes & effects?

  4. Generalization Reasoning Characteristics: • Large Sample • Representative Sample • Insightfully parted Questions: • How large is the sample? • How representative is the sample?

  5. Critical Evaluation Protocol • Identify Thesis & Predominant Type of Reasoning Used • Identify Elements of that type of reasoning • Diagram • Ask Contextualized Appropriate Critical Evaluation Questions • Answer Appropriate Critical Evaluation Questions • Briefly discuss what the argument does well • Identify weaknesses in the argument & provide additional information that would strengthen.

  6. Applying Reasoning Skillsto Research • Determine type(s) of reasoning implied in research question. • Consider characteristics of good reasoning for that/those types

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