Engage Students - Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict's readable, conversational style, wealth of exercises, suggested Website resources, glossary (and more!) allows your students to easily read, understand and engage with the text.
In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Jonathan Haber explains how the concept of critical thinking emerged, how it has been defined, and how critical thinking skills can be taught and assessed.
The book also provides access to a companion website containing additional questions, flashcards, and other useful critical thinking resources.
Shortlisted for the British Book Design and Production Awards 2018, Educational Books category Do you need to demonstrate a good argument or find more evidence?
Special features include: • an emphasis on the constructive aspect of critical thinking—strengthening the arguments of others and constructing sound arguments of your own—rather than an exclusive focus on spotting faulty arguments • ...
With discussion questions/exercises and suggestions for further reading at the end of each main chapter, this book is an essential read for students approaching the field of critical thinking for the first time, and for the general reader ...
In this highly accessible book, Alec Fisher shows students how they can develop a range of creative and critical thinking skills that are transferable to other subjects and contexts.
With Connect Critical Thinking, students can achieve this success. Connect Critical Thinking is a first: a learning program with pedagogical tools that are anchored in research on critical thinking.
This book will be of interest to professionals and students in the areas of industrial engineering, human factors, logistics, quality control, manufacturing, human resources, and safety.
Forinstance,if Ericsays to Pattie, 'Youlook wonderful tonight' andshe replies 'Yes, I look wonderful tonight', then they each utter different sentences, but they express the same proposition, namely that Pattie looks wonderful tonight.
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And yet, those are often the ones who do it the most. In this guide, you will receive greater comprehension of what fallacies are and close your blind spot to the truth of things.
"Develops logical thinking for superior reading comprehension and test success! Critical Thinking teaches students to think logically, present well-developed arguments, and see through unsupported arguments.
My chief obligations are to them. Logic ought to be easy, interesting, and enjoyable. This book will have been successful if it helps some readers to find it so.—Prof. Max Black
Exercises throughout the book engage readers in active learning, integrate writing as part of the critical thinking process, and emphasize skill transference.
Critical thinking is a set of techniques—you just need to learn them. This helpful book is your personal toolkit for demystifying critical engagement.
There are two basic types of arguments: deductive and inductive. In a deductive argument, the conclusion follows from the premise(s) with necessity so that, if all of the premises are true, then the conclusion cannot be false.
Bassham's popular text helps today's students bridge the gap between everyday culture and critical thinking. Using a proven step-by-step approach, this text covers all the basics of critical thinking in clear, reader-friendly language.
Critical Thinking: A Student's Introduction
In revising Critical Thinking: A Student's Introduction for this edition, we've tried to remain faithful to this original vision. Many passages have been rewritten to make the book clearer and (we hope) more engaging and accessible.