The course content addresses the following topics:
- Understanding what critical thinking is
- Distinguishing between argument and disagreement
- Distinguish between fact and opinion
- Identifying argument and checking for clarity and consistency
- Identify logic and consistency in arguments
- Identifying flaws in arguments
- Recognising underlying assumptions and implicit arguments
- Developing strategies for identifying reasons, conclusions, and arguments in written and oral texts
- Recognising forms of non-argument such as summaries, explanations, and descriptions
- Identifying cause and effect and cause-and-effect connectors
- Noun clauses, adjective phrases, quantifiers, contrast and concession connectors, passive voice, parallel structure and ellipsis