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IDS102: Applied Creative and Critical Thinking

Getting Started

This guide is to you with your research in IDS102: Applied Creative and Critical Thinking. The below resources will provide you with useful tips and meaningful help throughout the course and with your assignments this semester.

Critical Thinking and Logic

Video: Why Thinking Matters

Being aware of the critical thinking process will help you develop strong decision making skills. 

Video: Inquiry

This video will introduce you to the value of using an inquiry-based mindset to ask questions and solve problems thoughtfully and effectively.

Tutorial: Logical Reasoning

Using this tutorial, you will learn how to draw connections between logical reasoning and critical thinking in order to evaluate the objectiveity of an argument and its supporting evidence.

Video: Evidence Based Reasoning

This video will demonstrate how to assess a research question in order to locate the appropriate supporting evidence.

Tutorial: Analyzing Information

This tutorial will introduce you to the analysis process through open-mindedness, critical thinking, and curiosity.

Bias

Video: Introduction to Bias

This video introduces the idea of bias and prejudice and the importance of awareness of one's own bias and the bias of others when evaluating sources and situations, and responding to arguements

Video: Types of Bias

This video discusses specific types of bias such as social bias, confirmation bias, and communal reinforcement

Evaluating Statistics

Evaluating Statistics

Statistics are widely used to support arguments and positions. Use this video to think critically about how the statistics you encounter were created and used to convey information. 

APA Citation

For help creating your Reference list and citing your sources using APA Style, click here.

For help creating in-text citations for your Final Project, click here.  

For our full guide on APA Citation, click here

Tutorial: APA Citations 7th Edition

This video and tutorial will help you identify the required elements of APA 7th edition citation style in order to properly format in-text and reference list citations in your assignments. The tutorial includes several "check your understand" questions with drag and drop exercises where students can format citations of different source types properly.

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