Critical Thinking Resources

Welcome to the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point's Critical Thinking LibGuide!

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point understands critical thinking to be the process of identifying, analyzing, evaluating, and constructing reasoning in deciding what conclusions to draw (case-making or argumentation) or actions to take (decision-making and problem-solving).

Accordingly, this guide contains pages devoted to

• CASE-MAKING (or argumentation),

• DECISION-MAKING (which presupposes an understanding of argumentation), and

• PROBLEM-SOLVING (which presupposes an understanding of decision-making).

And because the world is too complex to understand single-handedly, we include a page devoted to

• PRODUCTIVE DIALOGUE.