Writing Center & English 800 Center

Tutorials: WC Critical Thinking Skills Supplementary Exercises

You can print the Critical Thinking Skills Supplementary Exercises at home. You may come to the Writing Center, 18-104, if you need Internet access or prefer to work on hard copy. Please do not print tutorials in the Writing Center. Thank you.

All of these exercises are designed for English 165 and 110 students:

• Different Kinds of Statement: Facts, Inferences, & Judgements
• Hidden Assumptions
• Logical Fallacies
• Logical Method Induction & Deduction
• Understanding Arguments: Logic
• Understanding Arguments: Rhetoric

Once you have completed the exercises and taken the exit quiz for the tutorials above, please bring them to the Writing Center so that an instructional aide can check the answers and sign your reporting form.  

• Drawing Inferences from Literature

After you have completed "Drawing Inferences from Literature", please bring your notes and exercise answers to the Writing Center in 18- 104 and ask the Instructional Aide for the exit quiz. This quiz must be completed in the Writing Center, and you must meet with a Writing Center instructor to review your answers.