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Author(s): Sherry Diestler
ISBN(s): 9780205063451, 0205063454
Edition: 6th
File Details: PDF, 6.17 MB
Year: 2011
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0205063454 

ISBN 13: 978-0205063451

Author: Sherry Diestler 

Developing Instinctive Analytical Skills in Students

Becoming a Critical Thinker: A User Friendly Manual trains students to distinguish high-quality, well-supported arguments from those 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.

Teaching and Learning Experience

Improve Critical Thinking – Coverage of persuasive speaking, decision-making, the Toulmin model of argumentation, and chapter–end writing and speaking exercisesall teach students to construct and present arguments so that they can gain skill and confidence.

Engage Students – Becoming a Critical Thinker: A User Friendly Manual exposes students to a variety of contemporary and multicultural issues, engaging their understanding of analytical skills through the use of articles and varied examples.

Support Instructors – Teaching your course just got easier! You can create a Customized Text or use our Instructor’s Manual, Electronic “MyTest” Test Bank or PowerPoint Presentation Slides. PLUS, our new Instructor’s Manual has been updated and expanded with revised tests and answer keys, a discussion of chapter exercises, and suggestions for teaching critical thinking concepts.

Table of contents:

1 FOUNDATIONS OF ARGUMENTS
Who Is a Critical Thinker, and When Do You Need to Be One?

2 VALUES AND ETHICS
What Price Ethics, and Can You Afford Not to Pay?

3 REALITY ASSUMPTIONS
It’s Eleven O’Clock. Do You Know Where Your Assumptions Are?

4 INDUCTIVE ARGUMENTS: STATISTICAL AND CAUSAL GENERALIZATIONS
Prove It to Me—What Are the Statistics?

5 INDUCTIVE GENERALIZATIONS: CONTROLLED STUDIES AND ANALOGIES
Who Said So, and Who Are They Anyway?

6 REASONING ERRORS
I Know What I Think—Don’t Confuse Me with Facts.

7 THE POWER OF LANGUAGE
What’s in a Name?

8 SUGGESTION IN MEDIA
Is What You See What You Get? Do You Really Want It?

9 FAIR-MINDEDNESS
It’s You and Me, Kid, and I’m Not So Sure About You.

10 PERSUASIVE SPEAKING
What’s Your Point? How Do You Sharpen It?

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