How to Think: Your Essential Guide to Clear, Critical Thought - Couverture souple

Tom Chatfield

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1529727413 ISBN 13 : 9781529727418

Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

<p>This is a book about thinking. Engaging and down-to-earth, it captures the habits and practices that are fundamental to clear thinking and effective study.</p><p>In his warm and friendly style, Tom Chatfield shows you how&nbsp;to:&nbsp;</p><ul> <li>Identify and examine your biases</li> <li>Engage in lively, curious skepticism</li> <li>See the value in emotion and use rhetoric persuasively</li> <li>Know when to say 'I don't know'</li> <li>Construct reasoned arguments and explanations</li> <li>Think critically about how you engage with technology.&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Short and punchy, the book views critical thinking as a skill to be continually practiced and developed.&nbsp;It equips you with a toolkit for clearer thinking, describing ten key concepts that help you to apply what you have learned.&nbsp;Including regular reflective exercises, key concepts, further readings, each chapter also offers recommendations for how to put the ideas it discusses into practice.<br><br>This book is for undergraduate students and anyone looking to understand the core ideas behind critical thinking. Celebrating both self-reflection and collaboration, this book empowers you to pause, think twice and, above all, think well.</p>

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dr Tom Chatfield is a British author, independent scholar and philosopher of technology. His textbooks for SAGE publishing include Critical Thinking, How To Think and Think Critically. He's also the author of half a dozen non-fiction books exploring digital culture, published in over thirty territories and languages; of an award-winning thriller, This Is Gomorrah (Hodder); and of books and educational resources for audiences ranging from K12 to graduate and business schools. Tom took his doctorate at St John's College, Oxford, and is a former Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, guest faculty member at the Said Business School, and senior Associate at the interdisciplinary think-tank Perspectiva. A TED Global speaker, Non Executive Director and Advisor at a number of not-for-profits, he writes and broadcasts internationally on technology, ethics and education.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

How to Think empowers you to pause, think twice and, above all, think well. A short and punchy essentials guide, it introduces the fundamental habits and practices for critical thinking and gives 10 key concepts for applying and building clear thinking for effective study.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1529727413
• ISBN 13: 9781529727418
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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