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Thinking for yourself : developing critical thinking skills through reading and writing / Marlys Mayfield.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Boston, MA : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, c2014.Edition: Ninth edition; International editionDescription: xx, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781133311188 (paperback)
  • 1133311180 (paperback)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PE1408 M45 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Books Books Ladislao N. Diwa Memorial Library Reserve Section Non-fiction RUS PE1408 M45 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Room use only 76348 00077922

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.

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