Becoming A Critical Thinker: A User Friendly Manual - Couverture souple

Diestler, Sherry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0131779982 ISBN 13 : 9780131779983

Editeur : Pearson, 2004

Synopsis

For courses in Critical Thinking, Informal Logic, Rhetoric, Argumentation, and English courses which cover the Argumentative Essay.

This text trains students to distinguish high-quality, well-supported arguments from arguments with little or no evidence to support them. It develops the skills required to effectively evaluate the many claims facing them as citizens, learners, consumers, and human beings, and also to be effective advocates for their beliefs.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Sherry Diestler has written a straightforward text to train students to distinguish well-supported arguments from ineffectual arguments with little or no evidence to support them. She develops students' skills required to effectively evaluate the many claims facing them, from classic sources as well as contemporary print and broadcast media, as citizens, learners, consumers, and human beings, and also to be effective advocates for their beliefs through both writing and public speaking.

Features

• Combines basic principles of logic, rhetoric, and argumentation
• Provides extensive contemporary, multicultural issues for students from a variety of disciplines and subject areas
• Covers decision-making and the Toulmin model of argumentation
• Teaches students the fundamentals of persuasive speaking
• Includes end-of-chapter writing and speaking exercises

Revue de presse

"Diestler has definitely written the book to be just what its cover advertises―user friendly. It is quite easy to read and it presents difficult concepts in a basic way so that the average student has little trouble understanding them . ... A cut above many other critical thinking books." ― R. Natasha Mohr, Creighton University

"There are very few hooks that can introduce a beginner to the thrill of critical thinking in a way that seems fairly uncomplicated, and yet that fosters progressive competency. Diestler's book says to a potential student, 'Come and try critical thinking: it is not scary, and you will soon become better at it than you think!" ― Lee Loots, California State University. Hayward

"For the kind of class that I teach and the particular group of students I encounter, this text is the best I have found." ― Steven Benfell, Western Michigan University

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0131779982
• ISBN 13: 9780131779983
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Riccardo Bacigalupo; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; 20135; Italie