Rent 9780138132422 | Learning to Think Things Through : A Guide to Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum

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How important is critical thinking in all areas of the curriculum? 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 in terms of the whole, and to become active learners rather than passive recipie... MORE

To the Instructor	p. xi
To the Student	p. xxi
What Is Critical Thinking?	p. 1
Some Definitions of Critical Thinking	p. 1
Some Prominent Features of Critical Thinking	p. 3
Three Parts of Critical Thinking	p. 5
What Critical Thinking Is Not	p. 13
Impediments to Critical Thinking	p. 18
Deeper, More Pervasive Impediments to Critical Thin... MOREking	p. 23
How Deep Is Our Need for Critical Thinking?	p. 28
The Experience of Learning to Think Things Through	p. 31
Getting Started: Clarifying with SEE-I	p. 33
An Overview of the Book That Lies Ahead	p. 38
Some Outcomes	p. 40
Chapter 1 Exercises	p. 42
The Elements of Reasoning	p. 49
The Nuts and Bolts of Critical Thinking	p. 50
The Elements of Reasoning	p. 50
Purpose	p. 52
Question at Issue	p. 53
Assumptions	p. 54
Implications and Consequences	p. 56
Information	p. 57
Concepts	p. 58
Conclusions, Interpretations	p. 60
Point of View	p. 61
Alternatives	p. 64
Context	p. 66
A Visualization	p. 67
Three Additional Elements of Reasoning	p. 68
How to Analyze a Piece of Reasoning Using the Elements	p. 71
Example: Thinking Through the Logic of Getting Married	p. 75
Trusting the Process	p. 79
Some Outcomes	p. 80
Chapter 2 Exercises	p. 81
What Is Critical Thinking Within a Field or Discipline?	p. 89
The Parts of Critical Thinking Within a Field	p. 92
Thinking Biologically, Thinking Sociologically, Thinking Philosophically, Thinking Musically ...	p. 95
The Logic of the Field or Discipline	p. 97
Box: An Analysis of the Logic of Earth Sciences	p. 100
Box: Logic of a Literature Course	p. 101
Learning the Vocabulary of the Discipline	p. 103
Fundamental and Powerful Concepts	p. 105
Box: Identifying Fundamental and Powerful Concepts	p. 108
Box: Short Essay: Using Fundamental and Powerful Concepts to Think Through a Central Question in an Introduction to Sociology Course	p. 115
The Point of View of the Discipline	p. 117
Impediments to Thinking Critically Within a Discipline	p. 119
Trusting the Discipline	p. 124
Box: A Case	p. 126
Some Outcomes	p. 129
Chapter 3 Exercises	p. 131
Standards of Critical Thinking	p. 139
Clearness	p. 140
Accuracy	p. 145
Importance, Relevance	p. 148
Sufficiency	p. 150
Depth and Breadth	p. 154
Precision	p. 157
Understanding and Internalizing Critical-Thinking Standards	p. 159
Additional Critical-Thinking Standards	p. 160
Non-Critical-Thinking Standards	p. 160
Evaluating Around the Circle	p. 162
Critical Reading	p. 163
Box: Standards Check	p. 166
Some Outcomes	p. 168
Chapter 4 Exercises	p. 169
Putting It All Together: Answering Critical-Thinking Questions	p. 175
The Core Process of Critical Thinking	p. 176
How Do You Fit into the Picture? Becoming a Critical Thinker	p. 181
Thinking Through Important Critical-Thinking Questions	p. 183
Box: Thinking Critically About Questions	p. 184
Critical Writing: Using the Core Process to Write a Paper	p. 201
Some Outcomes	p. 206
Chapter 5 Exercises	p. 207
Responses to Starred Exercises	p. 215
Notes	p. 223
Index	p. 227
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