How to Convince a Critical Reader in Six Sentences
Management Education needs students to think critically. But how to train your students' critical thinking skills? The six sentence argument (6SA) method focuses on enhancing critical thinking skills through structured writing and guided peer-review and involves several feedback loops.
Our exercise builds on the assumption that writing is thinking. The six sentence argument (6SA) method focuses on enhancing critical thinking skills through structured writing and guided peer-review and involves several feedback loops. For instructors, the exercise's key strength is that it can be administered online and is scalable for large courses with little additional workload. We successfully implemented the 6SA exercise in the SusTec “Corporate Sustainability” lecture.
Kölbel, J.; Jentges, E. (2017): “The Six-Sentence Argument: Training Critical Thinking Skills Using Peer Review.” Management Teaching Review, 2017, 1-11. Downloaddoi: 10.1177/2379298117739856