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Productive talk is:
- Making suggestions or introducing new ideas
- Supporting others’ suggestions by building upon them, clarifying them or modifying them
- Challenging ideas so that others reflect upon their validity
- Reasoning or justifying ideas
- Asking questions to seek clarification and elaboration
- Summarising to move the discussion on
- Analysing and evaluating to make explicit the strengths and weaknesses of own and others’ ideas.
Page Last Updated: 22 October 2003
