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Learning to Think Things Through : A Guide to Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum
ISBN: 9780131141520 | 013114152X
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005
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For Freshman Orientation/Critical Thinking courses as well as a supplementary text for use in any subject-matter course at any educational level. This short, inexpensive guide is designed to help students learn to think critically in any subject-matter course. A combination of instruction and exercises shows them how to use critical thinking to more fully appreciate the power of the discipline they are studying, to see its connections to other fields and to their day-to-day lives, to maintain an overview of the field so they can see the parts i... MORE
| What Is Critical Thinking? | |
| Some Definitions of Critical Thinking | |
| Some Prominent Features of Critical Thinking | |
| Three Parts of Critical Thinking | |
| What Critical Thinking Is Not | |
| Impediments to Critical Thinking | |
| Deeper, More Pervasive Impediments to Critical Thinking | |
| How Deep Is Our Need for Critical Thinking? The Experience of Learning to Think Things Thro... MORE | |
| An Overview of the Book That Lies Ahead | |
| The Elements of Reasoning | |
| The Nuts and Bolts of Critical Thinking | |
| The Elements of Reasoning | |
| Three Additional Elements of Reasoning | |
| How to Analyze a Piece of Reasoning Using the Elements | |
| Example: Thinking Through the Logic of Getting Married | |
| Trusting the Process | |
| What Is Critical Thinking Within a Field or Discipline? | |
| The Parts of Critical Thinking Within a Field | |
| Thinking Biologically, Thinking Sociologically, Thinking Philosophically, Thinking Musically hellip; The Logic of the Field or Discipline | |
| Learning the Vocabulary of the Discipline | |
| Fundamental and Powerful Concepts | |
| The Central Question of the Course as a Whole | |
| The Point of View of the Discipline | |
| Impediments to Thinking Critically Within a Discipline | |
| Trusting the Discipline | |
| Standards of Critical Thinking | |
| Clearness | |
| Accuracy | |
| Importance, Relevance | |
| Sufficiency | |
| Depth and Breadth | |
| Precision | |
| Understanding and Internalizing Critical-Thinking Standards | |
| Additional Critical-Thinking Standards | |
| Non-Critical-Thinking Standards | |
| Evaluating Around the Circle | |
| A Note on Reading as a Critical-Thinking Process | |
| Putting It All Together: Answering Critical-Thinking Questions | |
| The Core Process of Critical Thinking | |
| How Do You Fit into the Picture: Becoming a Critical Thinker | |
| Thinking Through Important Critical-Thinking Questions | |
| Responses to Starred Exercises | |
| Notes | |
| Index | |
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