Becoming a Critical Thinker: User Friendly Manual
ISBN: 9780132413138 | 0132413132
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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For courses in Critical Thinking, Informal Logic, Rhetoric, Argumentation, and English courses which cover the Argumentative Essay. This text trains students to distinguish high-quality, well-supported arguments from arguments with little or no evidence to support them. It develops the skills required to effectively evaluate the many claims facing them as citizens, learners, consumers, and human beings, and also to be effective advocates for their beliefs.
This book trains students to distinguish high-quality, well... MORE
This book trains students to distinguish high-quality, well... MORE
| Preface | |
| Foundations of Arguments | |
| What Is a Critical Thinker and When Do You Need to Be One | |
| Values and Ethics What Price Ethics and Can You Afford Not to Pay? | |
| Reality Assumptions Its Eleven OClock | |
| Do You Know Where Your Assumptions Are? | |
| Inductive Arguments: Statistical And Causal Generalizations Prove It to me: What Are the Statistics? | |
| Inductive Genera... MORE | |
| And Who Are They Anyway? | |
| Reasoning Errors I Know What I ThinkDont Confuse Me with Facts | |
| The Power of Language Whats in a Name? | |
| Suggestion in Media Is What You See What You Get? | |
| Do You Really Want It? | |
| Fair-Mindedness | |
| Its You and Me, Kid, and Im Not So Sure About You | |
| Persuasive Speaking Whats Your Point? | |
| How Do You Sharpen It? | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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