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Reason Right

Reason Right

introduction to the Reasoning Right exercises

Overview

Welcome to Reason Right, a set of exercises where you …

  • choose your path and progress at your pace, as you
  • learn how to separate right reasoning from wonky thinking, in order to
  • develop communication and critical thinking skills, so you can
  • find truth, be persuasive, and catch others in wonky thinking

Learning how to separate the good from the wonky is the point of these exercises. You’ll learn the nature of an argument and how to make inferences. You will develop communication and critical thinking skills. And yes, you’ll be catching relatives in wonky thinking (be forewarned).

Materials

Optional: Reasoning Right pdf ( alt-click or option-click to download instructor edition or learner edition ).

Modules

  1. Reasoning
  2. Induction
  3. Deduction
  4. Fallacies
  5. Non-Argument

Goals

  • Explain how to use arguments in effective communication
  • Construct effective inductive and deductive arguments
  • Identify fallacies in everyday experience
  • Distinguish an argument from non-inference

Content
Content

About Me

Roger Kenyon was North America’s first lay canon lawyer and associate director at the Archdiocese of Seattle. He was involved in tech (author of Macintosh Introductory Programming, Mainstay) before teaching (author of ThinkLink: a learner-active program, Riverwood). Roger lives near Toronto and is the author of numerous collections of short stories.

“When not writing, I’m riding—eBike, motorbike, and a mow cart that catches air down the hills. One day I’ll have Goldies again.”