This course aims for the development of learners’ proficiency in English writing and ability of critical thinking by integrating the knowledge and strategies of critical thinking into the traditional teaching about English argumentative essays. Core learning contents of the course include critical thinking...
The courses included several research-based strategies to promote critical thinking skills including asynchronous discussion, instructor modeling and coaching, explicit instruction about critical thinking, self-assessment, writing, Socratic questioning, and scoring rubrics that included critical thinking criteria....
sooner rather than later in your course, you may want to develop skills for writing in both descriptive and critical ways. Generally speaking, it iscritical thinkingand critical writing that tends to attract positive comments and higher marks from your tutors. ...
They all spoke about nebulously related concepts, topics that met with the ideology of the person writing. Conclusion A growing number of people seem to just not care about reality. Ideology is first, last, and only. Facts simply don’t matter. Reality is irrelevant. What’s important is ...
This 2014 article by Biswas and Paczynska made my heart sing, because it spells outexactlyhow writing and critical thinking play a role in the workplace. I have been preaching this gospel in my own classroom for eons. The article uses examples from the State Department, but they are applic...
I like playing soccer, chess, dabbling in philosophy, writing music, and writing song lyrics. Plus, I am always daydreaming about finally getting a dog (a rescue from a shelter, of course). 显示更多 Roger H. RH Thought it was a very worthwhile course. I certainly believe I have gained...
The first step of the training involved a one-week online program. During this step, the students were introduced to the corpus tool AntConc and gained an initial understanding of the speech text. Before the experimental lesson, the course instructor, who was also one of the researchers, compi...
Semantic Waves are used to show howSemantic Gravity (SG)andSemantic Density (SD)changes over time, in the course of a lesson or a piece of writing. Semantic Gravity is described as weak (SG-) when ideas are abstract, divorced from particular contexts and strong (SG+) when it is concrete...
The problem with common sense is that it’s so… common. “No way this business idea can ever be profitable. ”Oh, really? Why exactly not?Ramit Sethiis making a killing selling a $300 online course on choosing a good personal assistant. If that’s profitable, think about what else can...
A common issue that theatre professors may struggle with is balancing course content with significant writing requirements. How do we make our students better writers and critical thinkers while maintaining time for course content? Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) pedagogy and practices, such as ...