Critical Thinking for Students: 4th edition - Couverture souple

Van Den Brink-Budgen, Roy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845283864 ISBN 13 : 9781845283865

Editeur : How To Books, 2010

Synopsis

Critical Thinking is a core skill needed to make all your studies more effective, no matter what subject you are studying.

They enable you to assess what's been said or written by asking the right questions: 'What does this mean?' 'What else could it mean?' 'What other evidence do I need?' With your answers, you can suggest other explanations or scenarios: 'Perhaps it's this rather than that'. As a creative, enquiring thinker, you can then move on to produce well-argued material of your own.

This totally revised and updated book is a must if you want to find out how to develop your own arguments and evaluate other people's. Specifically, you will need to look at others' assumptions and their use of evidence. Learn too how to spot, and rectify, weaknesses of your own. An indispensable book, especially for students following the OCR AS-level course in Critical Thinking.

Contents: Preface to 4th Edition; 1. Giving Claims a Significance; 2. Explanations; 3. Inferences; 4. Assumptions; 5. More Building Up of Arguments; 6. Evaluation of Arguments: Looking at Evidence; 7. Evaluation of Arguments: Weaknesses in Reasoning; 8. Analogies, Hypotheses; Definations and Principles; 9. Credibility of Evidence; 10. Producing Arguments; Resources for further study; Additional information for the exercises; Index.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr ROY VAN DEN BRINK-BUDGEN is widely acknowledged as having played a leading role in the development of Critical Thinking over more than twenty years. His experience in assessing and teaching the subject is unrivalled in the UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: How To Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845283864
• ISBN 13: 9781845283865
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Isacco srl; http://www.isacco.it; ; Via L. Pirandello, 3; Telgate; 24060; Italie