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Critical Thinking - An Introduction to Analytical Reading and Reasoning (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Critical Thinking - An Introduction to Analytical Reading and Reasoning (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Now in its second edition, Critical Thinking: An Introduction to
Analytical Reading and Reasoning provides a nontechnical vocabulary
and analytic apparatus that guide students in identifying and
articulating the central patterns found in reasoning and in
expository writing more generally. Understanding these patterns of
reasoning helps students to better analyze, evaluate, and construct
arguments and to more easily comprehend the full range of everyday
arguments found in ordinary journalism.
Critical Thinking, Second Edition, distinguishes itself from other
texts in the field by emphasizing analytical reading as an
essential skill. It also provides detailed coverage of argument
analysis, diagnostic arguments, diagnostic patterns, and fallacies.
Opening with two chapters on analytical reading that help students
recognize what makes reasoning explicitly different from other
expository activities, the text then presents an interrogative
model of argument to guide them in the analysis and evaluation of
reasoning. This model allows a detailed articulation of "inference
to the best explanation" and gives students a view of the
pervasiveness of this form of reasoning. The author demonstrates
how many common argument types--from correlations to sampling--can
be analyzed using this articulated form. He then extends the model
to deal with several predictive and normative arguments and to
display the value of the fallacy vocabulary.
Ideal for introductory courses in critical thinking, critical
reasoning, informal logic, and inductive reasoning, Critical
Thinking, Second Edition, features hundreds of exercises throughout
and includes worked-out solutions and additional exercises (without
solutions) at the end of each chapter. An Instructor's
Manual--offering solutions to the text's unanswered exercises and
featuring other pedagogical aids--is available on the book's
Companion Website at www.oup.com/us/wright.
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