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Critical Thinking : An Introduction to Analytical Reading and Reasoning

ISBN: 9780195130331 | 0195130332
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/15/2001

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SummaryTable of Contents
Extensively classroom-tested, Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Analytical Reading and Reasoning provides a non-technical vocabulary and analytic apparatus that guide students in identifying and articulating the central patterns found in reasoning and in expository writing more generally.Understanding these patterns of reasoning helps students to better analyze, evaluate, and construct arguments and to more easily comprehend the full range of everyday arguments found in ordinary journalism. Critical Thinking distinguishes itself from other ... MORE
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Prefaceix
Part One. PARAPHRASING
The Bare-Bones Paraphrase
3(30)
Introduction
3(1)
The Concept of Paraphrase
4(2)
Reading and Paraphrase
6(3)
Technique and Vocabulary
9(7)
Human Understanding
16(3)
Subtler Issues
19(4)
Two Principles of Paraphrasing
23(5)
Things to Keep in Mind
28(5)
Supplemental Exercises
30(1)
Answers
31(2)
Reading for Structure: Dependency and Subordination
33(61)
Complexity
33(8)
Technique and Vocabulary
41(11)
Useful Patterns
52(7)
Tricks for Tough Cases
59(10)
Systematic Features
69(13)
Trial and Error Exercise
82(12)
Supplemental Exercises
84(3)
Answers
87(7)
Reading for Reasoning: Paraphrasing Arguments
94(45)
Reading for a Particular Purpose
94(1)
Reading for Reasoning
95(13)
A Shortcut: Schematizing Directly from a Passage
108(17)
Charitable Schematizing
125(14)
Supplemental Exercises
128(2)
Answers
130(9)
Part Two. ANALYZING REASONING
Argument Analysis: Answering Questions
139(59)
Introduction
139(1)
The Purpose of Analysis
140(1)
The Fundamental Concepts: Questions and Answers
141(13)
Refining the Apparatus and Exercising Our Skills
154(11)
Evaluating Arguments: How Good Are the Reasons?
165(9)
Interim Summary: What We Have Learned So Far
174(11)
Dealing with Disagreement
185(13)
Supplemental Exercises
191(1)
Answers
192(6)
Diagnostic Arguments
198(44)
Introduction
198(1)
Diagnostic Questions
199(1)
Diagnostic Concepts
200(6)
Diagnostic Articulation
206(10)
Refinements
216(6)
Diagnostic Investigation
222(20)
Supplemental Exercises
234(4)
Answers
238(4)
Diagnostic Patterns
242(70)
Introduction
242(1)
Cause and Correlation
242(25)
Testimony
267(18)
Sampling
285(13)
Counting Cases: Induction by Enumeration
298(2)
Circumstantial Evidence
300(12)
Supplemental Exercises
302(4)
Answers
306(6)
Further Applications: Prediction and Recommendation
312(42)
Introduction
312(1)
Prediction
313(17)
Recommendation
330(24)
Supplemental Exercises
345(3)
Answers
348(6)
Fallacies
354(16)
Introduction
354(1)
Fallacies of Construction
355(6)
Critical Fallacies
361(9)
Supplemental Exercises
368(1)
Answers
369(1)
Appendix. DEDUCTION370(13)
Introduction
370(1)
Semantic Conflict
371(3)
Semantic Evaluation
374(1)
Deductive Arguments
374(2)
Structure
376(2)
Tests and Criteria
378(2)
Relative Strength
380(2)
Summary
382(1)
Glossary of Important Terms383(6)
Index389

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