Martin Cohen

Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies

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Turbocharge your reasoning with Critical Thinking
Just what are the ingredients of a great argument? What is the secret to communicating your ideas clearly and persuasively? And how do you see through sloppy thinking and flim-flam?  If you’ve ever asked any of these questions, then this book is for you!
These days, strong critical thinking skills provide a vital foundation for academic success, and Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies offers a clear and unintimidating introduction to what can otherwise be a pretty complex topic. Inside, you'll get hands-on, lively, and fun exercises that you can put to work today to improve your arguments and pin down key issues.
With this accessible and friendly guide, you'll get plain-English instruction on how to identify other people's assumptions, methodology, and conclusions, evaluate evidence, and interpret texts effectively. You'll also find tips and guidance on reading between the lines, assessing validity — and even advice on when not to apply logic too rigidly!
Critical Thinking Skills for Dummies:
Provides tools and strategies from a range of disciplines great for developing your reflective thinking skills Offers expert guidance on sound reasoning and textual analysis Shows precisely how to use concept mapping and brainstorming to generate insights Demonstrates how critical thinking skills is a proven path to success as a student Whether you're undertaking reviews, planning research projects or just keen to give your brain a workout, Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies equips you with everything you need to succeed.
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Quotes

  • Aidoshas quoted8 years ago
    The one primary and fundamental law of mental action consists in a tendency to generalisation.
  • Aidoshas quoted8 years ago
    Ordering your thinking: Reason, analyse and then argue
  • Aidoshas quoted8 years ago
    If you're building a Critical Thinker, à la Dr Frankenstein, here are the abilities and attributes you need:
    Tolerance: Critical Thinkers delight in hearing divergent views, and enjoy a real debate.
    Analytical skills: Critical Thinkers don't accept just any kind of talking. They want properly constructed arguments that present reasons and draw sound conclusions.
    Confidence: Critical Thinkers have to be a little bit confident to be able to examine views that others present — often people in authority.
    Curiosity: Critical Thinkers need curiosity. It may have killed the cat, but curiosity is the essential ingredient for ideas and insights.
    Truth-seeking: Critical Thinkers are on mission ‘objective truth’ — even if it turns out to undermine their own previously held convictions and long-cherished beliefs and is flat against their self-interest.

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