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In order to examine the elicitation and production of critical reasoning, twenty-four eleventh grade students were directed to write a dialectical essay on a selected civic issue. Twenty-Two of the 24 students produced such essays. Difficulties included simplistic arguments pro and con, and non sequitur counterarguments. The investigators suggest that high school students are ready to employ advanced forms of critical reasoning on public controversies, and await lessons that invite it.
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