Last October the comedian-philosopher Jon Stewart did writing teachers a great service. Accosting the hosts of CNN’s Crossfire, Stewart accused them of shortchanging the American public by failing to ...

Students are often asked to write arguments beginning in their English classes, but don’t realize that argumentation strategies can be used in many different disciplines, such as defending research, ...

As you may have figured out from the focus of my ongoing blog, my book and my previous research, critical thinking (CT) is my specialty area of research. However, perhaps something that I don’t ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How do we teach ELLs formal language and how to write argument essays for the CCSS? Part One’s responses came from Tan Huynh, Vicky Giouroukakis, Maureen Connolly, ...

It has been suggested that approximately five exabytes (i.e. about 5,000,000,000 pickup truck beds full of information typed on paper) of data are created each day. What is tougher to decipher is how ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I explore the exasperating matter of ...

Chris Reed receives funding from EPSRC, The Leverhulme Trust and Volkswagen Foundation. The ability to argue, to express our reasoning to others, is one of the defining features of what it is to be ...

It is obvious that teaching and research in informal logic (critical thinking, rhetoric) is a growth industry, indeed one of burgeoning proportions. Judging by skyrocketing enrolments and the ...