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Candice Benjes -Small, Erin Berman, & Susan Van Patten Radford University

Put on your thinking hat! A creative approach to argument analysis. Candice Benjes -Small, Erin Berman, & Susan Van Patten Radford University. Argument Analysis. Critical thinking essential for college GRE Evaluating arguments is difficult for students. Our Thinking Hats.

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Candice Benjes -Small, Erin Berman, & Susan Van Patten Radford University

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  1. Put on your thinking hat! A creative approach to argument analysis Candice Benjes-Small, Erin Berman, & Susan Van PattenRadford University

  2. Argument Analysis • Critical thinking essential for college • GRE • Evaluating arguments is difficult for students

  3. Our Thinking Hats • Pink: Summarize the argument • Black: What are the weaknesses? • Green: What are the strengths? • Red: What is your personal, emotional reaction? • Blue: Who is the audience? Who benefits and who doesn’t?

  4. Sample argument "[D]on’t drink milk for health. I am convinced on the weight of the scientific evidence that it does not 'do a body good.' Inclusion of milk will only reduce your diet’s nutritional value and safety. Most of the people on this planet live very healthfully without cows’ milk. You can too." Robert M. Kradjian, MD

  5. Article Critique Dr. Kradjian’s argument is bad. I like drinking milk and I am healthy. Furthermore, in our county we have many dairy farmers who make a living from selling milk. It is important to our economy that we support the farmers.

  6. Making your hat • Start with paper skinny side up (portrait) • Fold paper in half, horizontally

  7. Making your hat • Fold again vertically (quarters) • Open up the paperso the crease is in the middle

  8. Making your hat • Fold down the left corner to the middle crease

  9. Making your hat • Fold down right corner, leaving an edge at the bottom

  10. Making your hat • Fold up one of the bottom edges

  11. Making your hat • Flip the hat over and fold up the second edge

  12. Making your hat • Open up the bottom and put on your thinking hat!

  13. "Dear Mrs X,I have been informed that you are now my advisor and i sure hope you are better than those people this summer.  I need to meet with you asap to fix my schedule as it is not in my interests to take classes before 11 am.  those others this summer said that there were no seats in the classes i close number one at the later hours but for my success i am hoping you can make room.  I am availabe to meet any time after 8pm tonight or at noon tomorrow.-StudentPS oh and i wondered if you could do something about the parking situation with my dorm too.  we will raise that issue when we meet"

  14. Hey, Susan – Play that video now • http://youtu.be/98nNpzE6gIs

  15. Methods • Discussion boards • Group work • Scaffolding to the argument analysis • Peer speech analysis

  16. Successes • Acknowledged emotional response but then isolated it • Encouraged students to explore different aspects of argument • Developed deeper level of evaluation and reflection

  17. Questions?

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