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In this book, Jennifer Moon explores and clarifies critical thinking and provides practical guidance for improving student learning and supporting the teaching process.
Consider the following hypothetical example of conflicting news reports: (a) ronald Smith, a science teacher at Oak lane high School, lost his temper yesterday and threw a book at a student, 17-year-old david Jones, hitting him on the ...
Critical Thinking
Defines the structure and content of the critical thinking course at colleges and universities across the country. This book describes the concepts of critical thinking and includes examples relevant to students.
Critical Thinking: Custom Ninth Edition Moore-Parker
The seventh edition provides fresh topical examples and exercises taken from the real world, even more clear and focused explanations, and dramatically expanded online resources.
Critical Thinking: Evaluating Claims and Arguments in Everyday Life
Critical Thinking: The Analysis of Arguments
An Instructor's Manual--offering solutions to the text's unanswered exercises and featuring other pedagogical aids--is available on the book's Companion Website at www.oup.com/us/wright.
Critical Thinking examines how we make judgments under uncertainty and how various biases can distort our consideration of evidence.
This book will be a coursebook for the undergraduate social science courses where critical thinking, numeracy, and data literacy are common learning objectives"--Provided by publisher. “At once rigorous and entertaining, thorough and ...
Critical Thinking, 2nd Edition is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life—as a professional, as a consumer, citizen, friend, or parent.
The book focuses on helping readers take thinking apart, both their own thinking and the thinking of others, and then assess and transform it. This edition adds chapters on fallacies in thinking, as well as on media bias and propaganda.
It includes activities that allow readers to apply these concepts within disciplines and to life. An added feature to this brief book is a focus on close reading and substantive writing.
This book complements information in introductory, interdisciplinary, or discipline-specific courses. Every chapter contains examples and exercises that can be assigned as homework, adopted as in-class activities, or both.
This bestselling volume in the Thinker's Guide Library provides students, educators, and professionals with an authoritative problem-solving framework essential for every aspect of life.
In a world of shallow values, instant gratification, and quick fixes, this book is for those readers who see the benefit of intellectual traits, standards, and abilities that will enable...
Critical Thinking presents, defines and explains the intellectual skills and habits of mind that comprise critical thinking and its relationship to social justice.
A much-needed guide to thinking critically for oneself and how to tell a good argument from a bad one. Includes topical examples from politics, sport, medicine, music, chapter summaries, glossary and exercises.