Thinking for yourself : developing critical thinking skills through reading and writing /
Mayfield, Marlys
Thinking for yourself : developing critical thinking skills through reading and writing / Marlys Mayfield. - Ninth edition International edition - Boston, MA : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, c2014. - xx, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Introduction to critical thinking -- Part I Basics of critical thinking -- Observation skills: what's out there? -- Word precision: how do i describe it? -- Facts: what's real? --Inferences: what follows? -- Part II Problems if critical thinking -- Assumptions: what's taken for granted? -- Opinions: what's believed? -- Viewpoints: what's the filter? Part III Forms and standards of critical thinking -- Argument: what's good argument? -- Fallacies: what's a faulty argument? -- Inductive reasoning: how do I reason from evidence? -- Inductive fallacies: how can inductive reasoning go wrong -- Deductive reasoning: how do I reason from premises? -- The research paper.
9781133311188 (paperback) 1133311180 (paperback)
2012949395
English language--Rhetoric
Critical thinking
Academic writing
PE1408 / M45 2014
Thinking for yourself : developing critical thinking skills through reading and writing / Marlys Mayfield. - Ninth edition International edition - Boston, MA : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, c2014. - xx, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Introduction to critical thinking -- Part I Basics of critical thinking -- Observation skills: what's out there? -- Word precision: how do i describe it? -- Facts: what's real? --Inferences: what follows? -- Part II Problems if critical thinking -- Assumptions: what's taken for granted? -- Opinions: what's believed? -- Viewpoints: what's the filter? Part III Forms and standards of critical thinking -- Argument: what's good argument? -- Fallacies: what's a faulty argument? -- Inductive reasoning: how do I reason from evidence? -- Inductive fallacies: how can inductive reasoning go wrong -- Deductive reasoning: how do I reason from premises? -- The research paper.
9781133311188 (paperback) 1133311180 (paperback)
2012949395
English language--Rhetoric
Critical thinking
Academic writing
PE1408 / M45 2014