Customer Training: The Critical Thinker’s Toolbox

In this 30-minute presentation, we explore three resources on the new Infobase Platform that can help new academic researchers build their critical-thinking skills. We cover setting context with current and historical news in World News Digest, supplementing research with decades of polling data from Polling the Nations, and forming debates by approaching new points of view on controversial topics with Issues & Controversies. 

In this webinar, we tour:

• World News Digest: Our flagship database containing decades of contemporaneously written news articles helping students understand context while connecting past and present events.
• Polling the Nations: 750,000+ original poll questions and results from 18,000+ surveys conducted in the U.S. and 100+ other countries from 1986 to the present.
• Issues & Controversies: Teach students to look for alternate points of view as they build early research papers or prepare debates on newsworthy topics.