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Critical thinking skills for dummies / by Martin Cohen.

By: Series: For dummiesPublisher: Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, 2015Description: 356 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781118924723 (pbk.)
  • 111892472X
  • 9781118924747 (ebk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370.152/COH
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Contents:
Getting started with critical thinking skills. Entering the exciting world of critical thinking ; Peering into the mind: how people think ; Planting the ideas in your head: the sociology of thinking ; Assessing your thinking skills -- Developing your critical thinking skills. Critical thinking is like solving puzzles: reasoning by analogy ; Thinking in circles: the power of recursion ; Drawing on graphical (and other) tools for thinking ; Constructing knowledge: information hierarchies -- Applying critical thinking in practice. Getting to the heart of the (reading) matter ; Cultivating your critical writing skills ; Speaking and listening critically: effective learning -- Reason and argument. Unlocking the logic of real arguments ; Behaving like a rational animal ; Using words to persuade: the art of rhetoric ; Presenting evidence and justifying opinions -- The part of tens. Ten logical pitfalls and how to avoid them ; Ten arguments that changed the world.
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Getting started with critical thinking skills. Entering the exciting world of critical thinking ; Peering into the mind: how people think ; Planting the ideas in your head: the sociology of thinking ; Assessing your thinking skills -- Developing your critical thinking skills. Critical thinking is like solving puzzles: reasoning by analogy ; Thinking in circles: the power of recursion ; Drawing on graphical (and other) tools for thinking ; Constructing knowledge: information hierarchies -- Applying critical thinking in practice. Getting to the heart of the (reading) matter ; Cultivating your critical writing skills ; Speaking and listening critically: effective learning -- Reason and argument. Unlocking the logic of real arguments ; Behaving like a rational animal ; Using words to persuade: the art of rhetoric ; Presenting evidence and justifying opinions -- The part of tens. Ten logical pitfalls and how to avoid them ; Ten arguments that changed the world.