Customer Training: The Critical Thinker’s Toolbox

In this 30-minute presentation, we explore three resources that can help new academic researchers build their critical-thinking skills. We’ll explore World News Digest for historical context and current event coverage, enhance research with decades of public opinion data from Polling the Nations, and examine multiple perspectives on controversial topics with Issues & Controversies.

In this webinar, we tour:

• Issues & Controversies: Teach students to look for alternate points of view as they build early research papers or prepare debates on newsworthy topics.
• World News Digest: Access trusted historical and current event coverage with context and background on key issues.
• 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.