Anthem Critical Thinking and Writing Skills: An Introductory Guide" Anthem Guide to Critical Thinking Skills: Language and Logic' guides readers in the process of critical thinking and persuasive speaking and writing. The text discusses informal thinking, the formal processes of induction, deduction, and syllogistic reasoning, in a clear format that makes it easy for the "beginning logician" to process. Students learn how to form a proposition, identify issues, gather evidence, and process an argument. To get started, logic games, puzzles, and real life examples ask students to consider how we evaluate, analyze, and decide. What happens if Janie says, 'Mom, can I go to the party? All of my friends are going!' And Mom responds, 'What if all of your friends jumped off the empire State building?' Is 'all of my friends are going' a good reason? Does mom have a point? Language and Logic will help students evaluate these everyday decisions. Then a more formal look at induction and deduction challenges students to practice higher-level thinking skills, such as using analogies for evaluation, and working through syllogisms to process ideas. After a review of the Greek Fallacies, readers can have some literary logic fun by analyzing old standards like 'Love is a Fallacy' and the persuasive love poem 'The Passionate Shepherd'"-- Provided by publisher. |
Contents
Critical Thinking_01_Chap01_p001008 | 1 |
Critical Thinking_02_Chap02_p009020 | 9 |
Critical Thinking_03_Chap03_p021030 | 21 |
Critical Thinking_04_Chap04_p031036 | 31 |
Critical Thinking_05_Chap05_p037060 | 37 |
Critical Thinking_06_Chap06_p061072 | 61 |
Critical Thinking_07_Chap07_p073092 | 73 |
Critical Thinking_08_Chap08_p093106 | 93 |
Critical Thinking_09_Appendix_p107128 | 107 |
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Anthem Critical Thinking and Writing Skills: An Introductory Guide Victoria Pontzer Ehrhardt No preview available - 2011 |
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