Defining the Elements
Defining the Standards
Questions that Target Elements
Questions that Target Standards
What are They Concerned About?
100
The goal or objective behind our reasoning.
What is Purpose?
100
Relating to the matter at hand
What is Relevance?
100
What were the author’s intentions in writing this essay? Targets THIS
What is Purpose?
100
How could we verify or test that to be sure it is true? targets this
What is Accuracy?
100
An author who checks facts and provides sources
What is Accuracy?
200
A conclusion one reaches based on what the evidence implies.
What is Inference and(or) Interpretation?
200
Focusing on the important; not trivial
What is Significance?
200
What evidence does the author present to support his ideas? Targets THIS
What is Information?
200
Could you be more exact? targets this
What is Precision?
200
A student who researches alternate points of view from multiple sources
What is Breadth?
300
The outcomes that logically follow from our reasoning… “All reasoning leads somewhere.”
What is Implications and(or) Consequences?
300
Exact to the necessary level of detail
What is Precision?
300
What am I taking for granted here? Targets THIS
What are Assumptions?
300
What factors make this a difficult problem? targets this
What is Depth?
300
A professor who explains difficult material with visual aids and allows time for questions
What is Clarity?
400
All reasoning is an attempt to figure something out or solve some problem
What is Question at Issue?
400
The parts make sense together; no contradictions
What is Logic?
400
What theory or hypothesis is this author using in her thinking? Targets THIS
What are Concepts?
400
Does all this make sense together? targets this
What is Logic?
400
A journalist who interviews people with different ideas about an issue, and suspends their own beliefs while they write
What is Fairness?
500
Ideas, theories, laws, principles or hypothesis
What are Concepts?
500
Containing complexities and multiple relationships
What is Depth?
500
Is there another way I should be looking at this situation? Targets THIS
What is Point of View?
500
Do I have a vested interest in this issue? targets this
What is Fairness?
500
A researcher who identifies the most important facts and focuses their work on one central idea
What is Significance?
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