Critical Thinking Resources to Help you Evaluate Sources and Arguments



**Critical Thinking Questions You Should Always Ask
        **Here's  a specific example of how to use these questions.
**Taking Sides: Questions to Ask When Examining a Position
The Strategy List: 35 Dimensions of Critical Thinking
Critical Reading Questions
General Guidelines for Evaluating Arguments
Evaluating Arguments Tips
 
**The Evalution of Sources
Critically Analyzing Information Sources
Evaluating Sources: Introduction
Evaluating Sources
Finding Reliable Information
Detecting Bias in the News

**Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites
Evaluating web resources (Widener U.) Criteria for evaluating:
   Advocacy web pages
   Business/marketing web pages
   News web pages
   Informational web pages
   Personal web pages
Evaluating Internet Research Sources
Student's Guide to WWW Research: Web Searching, Web Page Evaluation, and Research Strategies
Evaluaton Criteria from "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources"
Evaluating Sources -- A Checklist for Electronic Resources
Evaluating Internet information

Scholarly and Non-Scholarly Periodicals
Scholarly Journal vs Magazine vs Trade Publication
Primary sources vs. secondary sources
McGraw-Hill/Dushkin: Basic Library Research

**Taking Sides: Propaganda Alert
Mission: Critical (Fallacious Appeals)
Informal Fallacies

**How to debate effectively and rationally.
**Informal Debate Guidelines
Choices, Choices, & More Choices: A Webquest to Help You Learn About Debates
Robert Huber, Influencing through Argument 
    Chapter I Why Use Argument to Influence Others 
    Chapter IV Gathering Material for Building Arguments 
    Chapter V Influencing Through Evidence 
    Chapter X Refutation: Blocking the Arguments of Others
    Chapter XIV Logic is Not Enough: Use Other Sources of Persuasion Too
Strategies for Analyzing Public Issues
Controversy Analysis

When Using Your Sources Be Sure to Avoid Plagiarism:
Plagiarism Review
Assessing Authorship