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Students grow as critical thinkers in courses that regularly ask them to propose and justify solutions to subject‐matter problems. To accomplish this end, instructors can design and sequence homework tasks or in‐class activities that engage students with the course's big questions. Imagine yourself creating a big file of good problems or questions related to your course. Your goal is to fill that file with dozens of good questions for students to think about. You can then pull questions from your file to engage students with any number of low‐stakes activities—in class freewrites, thought letters, one‐paragraph microthemes, discussion board posts, small‐group tasks, whole‐class discussion starters, classroom debate topics—or occasional high‐stakes activities such as a formal writing assignment or major research project. Students will begin to see how to join the conversations of your discipline. The rest of the chapters in this book discuss numerous strategies for integrating such teacher‐designed questions into a course.