Rationale Guide: This free Rationale Guide gives an introduction into critical thinking with Rationale. You can find it in the ribbon at the top of the Rationale editor.
Three Tutorials with tons of exercises and model answers .
These three tutorials are designed for use in Rationale – accessible too from links in Rationale in the ribbon of the Editor. Preview them here:
1. Critical Thinking Exercises
(The first parts of each tutorial are free, the rest free accessible with a Rationale subscription).
E-book: Critical Thinking. Reasoning and Communicating with Rationale – including a Self-study Guide – available in print here.
Click on image for the contents of the book
( The first parts of the e-book are free, the rest free accessible with a Rationale Extra subscription; the e-book is not downloadable for an e-book reader).
Guides for educators, free to download:
Guides for educators, free to download:
- Educators’ Guide (a conceptual framework for using Rationale)
- The Rationale Thinking Pack (pdf)
In Rationale in the Public Maps part: https://www.rationaleonline.com/browse/by-tags/thinking-pack/
- Primary
- Primary Educators Supplement (pdf): A practical Guide with activities, examples and templates.
In Rationale in the Public Maps part: https://www.rationaleonline.com/browse/by-tags/primary-supplement/ - Primary Sample Maps (pdf)
In Rationale: https://www.rationaleonline.com/browse/by-tags/primary-examples/
- Primary Educators Supplement (pdf): A practical Guide with activities, examples and templates.
- Secondary
- Secondary Educators Supplement (pdf): A practical Guide with activities, examples and templates.
In Rationale: https://www.rationaleonline.com/browse/by-tags/secondary-supplement/ - Secondary Sample Maps (map samples across the curriculum for secondary level users)
In Rationale: https://www.rationaleonline.com/browse/by-tags/secondary-examples/ - International Schools / International Baccalaureate: see here.
- Secondary Educators Supplement (pdf): A practical Guide with activities, examples and templates.
- Tertiary
College and University resources: for more information about the method Critical Thinking with Rationale, see here, and contact us .
Free online courses, using Rationale:
Course: Improving Reasoning : a course made as part of an IARPA project: 12 modules, each with textbooks and links to great exercises in Rationale.
Course Scientific Writing : Geoff Hyde (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore) developed an online course Scientific Writing in which Rationale is fully integrated.
From the Introduction:
‘Rationale is mainly focussed on teaching people how to think clearly about contentious issues, and has very successfully popularized a diagrammatic method of argument development.
My experiences in the classroom have taught me that this diagrammatic approach is also a great starting point for writing all types of scientific text. It is the most practical way to outline that I have come across. Outlining is often promoted as a writing tool because it forces the writer to focus first on organising ideas, before moving onto packaging them.’
Free online resources:
Rationale WIKI , accessible in the Rationale Public Maps using the WIKI tag.
An important part of the Rationale Wiki is the Rationale: Patterns of Arguments site . You can access the maps directly in our Public Maps using the tags: Argument Schemes, Argumentation Schemes, Categorical Syllogisms, Douglas Walton, Fallacies, John Pollock, Katzav and Reed, Patterns of Argument, Rationale Argumentation Schemes, Simple Deductive Schemas Templates for Classical Arguments, Simple Inductive Schemas and Toulmin.
The Public Maps: here you find maps of users that are made Public. You can open this section of Rationale from your My maps or from the homepage of Rationale. Use tags to sort them.
The site Critical Thinking on the Web: an overview of all kind of Critical Thinking Resources (no longer updated).