MERLOT Materials

This website has links to a dozen lessons that I created for a freshman composition class. Material covered includes:... see more

Five short situational cases are provided here. Each involves an ethical decision in the workplace. Steps for making... see more

This lesson introduces users to the basics of argument recognition, analysis, evaluation, and construction by means of a... see more

These resources accompany "Exercises for Critical Thinking" which is also available on Merlot. They provide resources for... see more

Lesson plan for a six-lesson unit on teaching ESL how to debate – structure and strategies, vocabulary. CEFR Domain:... see more

The current rise in online learning programs mandates that postsecondary faculty examine means of transferring... see more

How Arguments Work takes students through the techniques they will need to respond to readings and make sophisticated... see more

Critical Thinking in Academic Research - 2nd Edition provides examples and easy-to-understand explanations to equip... see more

This textbook aims to give learners more confidence in your reading, writing, researching, and speaking abilities as... see more

The ability to identify logical fallacies in the arguments of others, and to avoid them in one’s own arguments, is both... see more

Recognize patterns in a series of shapes, numbers, or letters. After determining the pattern, the student fills in the... see more

These exercises were written to accompany a course in critical thinking. Everything starts with a question so it's... see more

This is a guide created for faculty members. 'This booklet is based on the premise that writing is more than just an... see more

The AP Capstone program, which ETS offers, equips students with the critical skills needed for college while... see more

In this statistics unit plan, three lessons guide students through solving the problem of a sick elephant by collecting,... see more

This is a practical course in which you will be encouraged to get to grips with the fundamentals of critical thinking.... see more

This work was developed as an Open Textbook (OER, Open Educational Resource) for use in a lower-level Philosophy course... see more

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to critical thinking. Students gain knowledge of deductive and inductive... see more

The purpose of this OER is to show how arguments work and how one might go about constructing a complex argument.... see more

The purpose of this OER is to introduce students to the idea of flaws and weaknesses in arguments within a critical... see more

This first chapter explains what it means to be logical—to reason logically. It demonstrates the usefulness of logical... see more

In exploring the concept of implication, which is at the heart of nearly all reasoning, we divided it into two types:... see more

This chapter introduced the concept of a sentence's logical form and the concept of logical equivalence between... see more

This chapter focused on the logical forms of arguments in Aristotle's class logic. For deductive arguments involving... see more