'Not quite right': Helping students to make better arguments

Teaching in Higher Education

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 327-340

  Davies, W Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Argument; Critical thinking; Inference making

Indexed keywords

EID: 42549163012     PISSN: 13562517     EISSN: 14701294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562510802045352     Document Type: Article

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