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Peer reviewedMenefee, Emory – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1987
Discusses critical thinking as the process of moving fluently among abstraction levels. Defines three components involved in fluency of movement: (1) knowledge, or an awareness of the existence of abstraction levels; (2) payoff, or the reason for acquiring fluency; and (3) timing, or a consciousness of abstraction levels at a given time and place.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Torvik, Solveig – Engl J, 1969
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Critical Thinking, English Instruction, Evaluative Thinking
Peer reviewedSeabury, Marcia Bundy – English Journal, 1991
Discusses strategies (based on S. I. Hayakawa's abstraction ladder) to encourage connected thinking in student writing. Describes a recent cross-disciplinary workshop seeking to improve student essay writing and evaluation. (KEH)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Rhetoric
