Beyond control of variables: What needs to develop to achieve skilled scientific thinking?

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Argumentation Across the Curriculum (2011, background): “Lischinsky (2008) notes that concrete examples have been considered inferior forms of argumentation in classical rhetoric and much psychological research—yet for managers, “together with brevity, simplicity of language and directness—the presence of concrete examples is one of the features they valu”
A Dialogic Account of Sense-Making in Scientific Argumentation and Reasoning (2012, background): “A groundbreaking line of work by Deanna Kuhn and colleagues (e.g., Kuhn, 1991, 1993; Kuhn et al., 2008) has emphasized that sound arguments have a structural separation between a theoretical claim and the evidence for it.”
What Needs to Develop in the Development of Inquiry Skills? (2008, background): “Like skills of inquiry, skills of argument are ones that must be engaged and developed; they are far from intuitive (Kuhn & Udell, 2003, 2007; Kuhn et al., 2008).”