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Reporting,
Writing, & Editing
Links
to Critical Thinking
Critical
thinking skills are essential to storytelling because they
help the writer create the voice that takes journalism to
another level. Here are links to educational sites that
focus more clearly on critical thinking and how it might
apply to sharpening journalism skills.
A
Call for Reason
This
essay explores how critical thinking applies to journalism.
The web page also includes a profile of a critical thinker
and bibliography by Bill Dorman, a journalism and government
teacher at Sacramento State University.
Critical
Thinking Resources in English and Journalism
As more teachers focus on the importance of critical thinking
skills, sites such as this one, produced by Dave Sharp of
Maple Woods Community College, provide links to valuable
resources.
Program@Nevada
The faculty of the Reynolds School of Journalism at the
University of Nevada-Reno spent a year refocusing its curriculum
to integrate critical thinking skills into all its courses.
The school's mission is to "to teach students to think critically
and to apply that thinking to the collection, organization,
and communication of information through the public media"
Browse the course syllabi to see how they do it.
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