“In a word, I think Rationale is awesome! I have been struggling in my doctoral thesis to demonstrate a significant degree of competency in critical thinking. After working my way through the first set of 12 online exercises, I really feel clearer in my mind about structuring and presenting my arguments to my supervisor. Furthermore, I find the user interface is clear, friendly, uncluttered, and just makes me want to play. Congratulations on a superb intellectual tool!”
Steve Hinge,
ICT Project Manager, Infrastructure Services, NorthTec
“Rationale is clearly a breakthrough product that has the potential to accelerate the development of sound reasoning.”
Gregory Louie,
Gravelly Hill Middle School, North Carolina
“I am glad to have a product to capture my thought process in a way that is a step above just a mind map. Mind map software can capture the same thoughts, but your system organizes the thoughts in a automated way that I was looking for in a program.”
Paul Trebian,
University of Phoenix
“I’ve been looking for an effective way to teach critical thinking for 10 years – Rationale is far and away the most promising option I’ve ever seen.”
Steve Crowley,
Boise State University
“I like your argument graphics for their simplicity, their clarity, and aesthetic design, and above, all I believe that students or corporate folks would feel inspired to use them.”
Marlys Mayfield,
College of Alameda, California
“fun to use…. A very good tool for students learning rhetoric, debating, logic, or composition.”
Larry O’Brien,
in his review of Rationale™ at Knowing.net
“Rationale™ is magic when it comes to thinking through a problem… To my great delight I found that argument mapping could be fun as well as eye opening… If I had had Rationale™ in college… my thinking skills would’ve been finely tuned and problem solving would have become a much more rewarding pursuit. Now my ideas are more accurate and better articulated.”
Chet Dailey,
Rationale™ user
“one specially ambitious new offering…”
James Fallows,
Eminent journalist James Fallows talks about Rationale™ in his technology column (the last four paragraphs of page two). (Subscription required, or email us and we can send you a temporary link)
“I am very impressed with Rationale™ as a tool to assist students in improving the structure of their analytical essays… Rationale™ greatly assists our staff in implementing the higher order thinking skills that are essential to improving student learning.”
Catherine O’Kane,
St Rita’s College
“No agony, just ecstasy…Argument mapping turns out to be fun.”
sorted.imakecontent.net,
Sorted, review of Rationale™.
“An outstanding product with a broad range of curriculum applications. The visual nature of this software will prove very valuable in assisting my students to organise their thinking”
Garry Chapman,
Assistant Director of Curriculum, Ivanhoe Grammar School.
“Your new software is genuinely dazzling – both at a practical level and at a theoretical level. Congratulations!”
Peter Tillers,
tillers.net/home.html, Professor of Law, Yeshiva University
“Once they start to see this as a normal, natural way to think through their essay plan, the quality of their essays jumps noticeably. Students who were baffled at first start to feel that they really can do this stuff. That’s magic.”
Mark Matcott,
Lilydale High School
“It’s not just for lawyers. Argument mapping is such a fundamental skill in business.”
Simon Uthmeyer,
Phillips Fox Lawyers
“Wow, it was a real joy to work with the program, it really goes a long way to answering all my previous wishes, and offers lots of unlooked for delights as well.”
Dr. Geoff Hyde,
National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
“Austhink’s argument mapping techniques have enhanced DSE’s policy capability by improving the logic with which we tackle the sustainability policy task.”
Scott Rawlings,
Principal Analyst, Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria
