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FROM THE EDITOR 

Daniel E. Flage gives us a flow chart that illustrates one way of organizing many 
critical thinking questions, and of seeing how they work together to evaluate reason-
mg. 

Written exercises such as the one from Steven C. Combs will help students to 
orchestrate those evaluative questions. He has used his exercise for a number of years 
because it has stimulated the production of good papers and discussions. 

Ron Leonard gives us an innovative way oftesting the validity of disjunctive syllo-
gisms that would be appreciated by students who think vi sually. 

Tim van Gelder informs us of valuable critical thinking sites on the Web. 

John Bryant reports to us a way of planning student participation at the beginning 
of a semester, and suggests a modification of the standard True/False question . 

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pie s of assignments, tests, exams; individual examples for classroom use (with , or 
without, your analysis of them); discuss ions of textbooks and how best to use them ; 
teaching tips for particular topics; teaching problem s (with, or without, your solu-
t ions); notices of resources: upcom ing conferences , workshops, other journals with 
useful material ; ideas about faculty training or peer coaching; etc .-to (or contact): 

Dr. Cl aude Gratton 
Department of Philosophy, University of Nevada- Las Vegas 
4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 455028 
Las Vegas, NV 89154-5028, U.S.A. 
Email: grattonc@neveda.edu Tel. 702.895.4333 Fax. 702.895 .1279