WHERE TO GO FOR HELP …

• Logic Courses Check out the introductory course in logic offered by your college’s philosophy department. It might be the single best course designed to teach you critical-thinking skills. Nearly every college offers such a course.
• Argument Courses and Critical-Thinking Courses Does your institution offer either an argument or a critical-thinking course? Check your campus catalog to see what you can find. Such courses will help you develop the ability to formulate logical arguments and avoid such pitfalls as logical fallacies.
• Debating Skills Some of the very best critical thinkers developed debating skills during college. Go to either your student activities office or your department of speech and drama to find out whether your campus has a debate club or team. Debating can be fun, and chances are you will meet some interesting student thinkers that way.

• 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose (New York: Penguin Classics, 2006) This reprint of the original teleplay, which was written in 1954, was made into a film in 1958. It is also available on DVD. The stirring courtroom drama pits twelve jurors against one another as they argue the outcome of a murder trial in which the defendant is a teenage boy. Although critical thinking is needed to arrive at the truth, all the jurors except one use noncritical arguments to arrive at a guilty verdict. The analysis of that one holdout, however, produces a remarkable change in their attitudes.

• How to Understand and Use Bloom’s Taxonomy http://online.fiu.edu/faculty/resources/bloomstaxonomy
• A Guide to Critical Thinking about What You See on the Web: http://www.icyousee.org/think/think.html