Thinking for Yourself (with APA 2019 Update Card)

Marlys Mayfield (Autor)

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2020 | 9th edition
Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
978-0-357-60119-8 (ISBN)

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THINKING FOR YOURSELF: DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS THROUGH READING AND WRITING offers a unique integration of composition, reading, and critical thinking. As you complete the book's writing assignments, you'll see how your writing reflects your thinking and how self-directed improvement in thinking also improves your writing. The book offers step-by-step instruction, humor, cartoons, and up-to-date social and political examples as a foundation for lifelong improvement in thinking and writing.

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Marlys Mayfield was a pioneer in the teaching critical thinking together with writing; she began developing this book for her English composition students at the College of Alameda in 1983. At present she offers her services as a critical thinking teaching consultant.

PART I: BASICS OF CRITICAL THINKING.
1. Observation Skills: What's Out There?
2. Word Precision: How Do I Describe It?
3. Facts: What's Real?
4. Inferences: What Follows?
PART II: PROBLEMS OF CRITICAL THINKING.
5. Assumptions: What's Taken for Granted?
6. Opinions: What's Believed?
7. Viewpoints: What's the Filter?
PART III: FORMS AND STANDARDS OF CRITICAL THINKING.
8. Argument: What's a Good Argument?
9. Fallacies: What's a Faulty Argument?
10.Inductive Reasoning: How Do I Reason from Evidence?
11.Inductive Fallacies: How Can Inductive Reasoning Go Wrong?
12.Deductive Reasoning: How Do I Reason from Premises?
APPENDIX.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.1.2020
Verlagsort	Belmont, CA
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-357-60119-X / 035760119X
ISBN-13	978-0-357-60119-8 / 9780357601198
Zustand	Neuware