CoRT 2. Organisation - helps students to organise their thinking. The first five operations are basic ones concerned with moving forward from an initial idea. The second five operations concern the general organisation of thinking.

CoRT 3: Interaction - is concerned with argument, interaction and critical thinking: the way we use to be right and the ways we can be wrong.

CoRT 4: Creativity - creativity is treated as a normal part of thinking processes that can be learned, practised and applied in a deliberate manner. The purpose of creativity is to arrive at an effective new idea. CoRT 4 encourages the "design" type of creativity. This may be concerned with changing concepts and changing - in other words, lateral thinking.

CoRT 5: Information and feeling - concerned with eliciting information and assessing it. Values and emotions determine the outcome of our thinking. The purpose of thinking is to arrange the world in our minds so that we can apply values and emotion effectively.

CoRT 6: Action - Thinking in action. Active Thinking. This section is concerned with the total process of thinking: beginning with the purpose, and ending with the specific action steps for implementing the outcome of thinking. This section consolidates the thinking processes that have been explored and practised in CoRT 1 through 5.