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Appendix To A Unilateral Grading Contract To Improve Learning And Teaching [Written With Jane Danielewicz], Peter Elbow
Appendix To A Unilateral Grading Contract To Improve Learning And Teaching [Written With Jane Danielewicz], Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
This is an appendix that is meant to accompany the essay published in *College Composition and Communication* Vol 61, No 2, December 2009.
The Believing Game Or Methodological Believing, Peter Elbow
The Believing Game Or Methodological Believing, Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
The kind of thinking most widely honored is often called "critical thinking." I call it "the doubting game" because the premise is that we should test ideas by subjecting them to the discipline of doubt. It's a valuable and necessary methodology for good thinking because it trains us to find hidden flaws in ideas that sound attractive or that are widely assumed to be true.
In this essay I suggest a different kind of thinking that is equally important but little honored or even noticed. I call it the believing game because the premise is that we should test ideas …