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Critical Thinking: A User's Manual
Author(s): Debra Jackson (Author), Paul Newberry (Author)
- Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co
- Publication Date: January 1, 2011
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 344 pages
- ISBN-10: 0495814075
- ISBN-13: 9780495814078
Book Description
CRITICAL THINKING: A USER’S MANUAL offers an innovative skill-based approach to critical thinking that provides step-by-step tools for examining arguments. Students build a complete skill set by recognizing, analyzing, diagramming, and evaluating arguments; later chapters encourage application of the basic skills to categorical, truth-functional, analogical, generalization, and causal arguments as well as fallacies. The exercises throughout the text engage readers in active learning, integrate writing as part of the critical thinking process, and emphasize skill transference. A special feature, called Your Turn! encourages students to not just skim through the book’s explanations, but stop, think, and apply what they are learning.
