Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies
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Learn how to argue points effectively, analyze information, and make sound judgments The ability to think clearly and critically is a lifelong benefit that you can apply in any situation that calls for reflection, analysis, and planning. Being able to think systematically and solve problems is also a great career asset. Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies helps you hone your thinking abilities and become a better communicator.
You’ll find hands-on, active instruction and exercises that you can put to work today as you navigate social media and news websites, chat with AI, fact-check your own and others’ views, and more. Become a thinking machine, with this Dummies guide. Identify other people’s arguments and conclusions--and spot holes in them Evaluate evidence and produce more effective arguments in any situation Read between the lines of what people say and form your own judgments Apply critical thinking to school or college assignments to improve your academic performance This is the perfect Dummies title for students, researchers, and everyone who seeks to improve their reasoning and analysis ability.
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- Wiley Professional Development (P&T)
- 9781394244591
- 9781394244584
- ePub
- 2
- Martin Cohen
- English
- 2024-05-13
- 100
- 10
- 2
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1: Getting Started with Critical Thinking Skills
- Chapter 1: Entering the Exciting World of Critical Thinking
- Opening the Doors to the Arguments Clinic
- Reading between the Lines
- Understanding What Critical Thinking Isn’t
- Chapter 2: Peering into the Mind: How People Think
- Thinking Logically or Instinctively
- Watching How the Brain Thinks
- Getting Inside Scientists’ Heads
- Answers to Chapter 2’s Exercises
- Chapter 3: Planting Ideas in Your Head: The Sociology of Thinking
- Asking Whether You’re Thinking What You Think You’re Thinking
- Thinking and Indoctrination: Propaganda
- Appreciating the Difficulties of Staying Impartial
- Appealing to Feelings: The Psychology of Argument
- Manipulating Minds and Persuading People
- Chapter 4: Assessing Your Thinking Skills
- Discovering Your Personal Thinking Habits
- Busting Myths about Thinking
- Exploring Different Types of Intelligence: Emotions and Creativity
- Answers to Chapter 4’s Exercises
- Part 2: Developing Your Critical Thinking Skills
- Chapter 5: Critical Thinking Is Like … Solving Puzzles: Reasoning by Analogy
- Investigating Inventiveness and Using Your Imagination
- Confused Comparisons and Muddled Metaphors
- Becoming a Thought Experimenter
- Answers to Chapter 5’s Exercises
- Chapter 6: Thinking in Circles: The Power of Recursion
- Thinking Like a Computer Programmer
- Sort, Select, Amplify, Generate: Using Design Skills to See New Solutions
- Ordering Yourself a Nice, Fresh Argument! (Exercise)
- Answers to Chapter 6’s Exercises
- Chapter 7: Drawing on Graphics for Thinking
- Discovering Graphical Tools: Mind Mapping and Making Concept Charts
- Putting Graphical Tools to Use
- Considering Other Thinking Tools
- Answers to Chapter 7’s Exercises
- Chapter 8: Constructing Knowledge: Information Hierarchies
- Building the Knowledge Pyramid
- Turning the Knowledge Hierarchy Upside Down
- Maintaining Motivation: Knowledge, Skills, and Mindsets
- Answers to Chapter 8’s Exercises
- Part 3: Applying Critical Thinking in Practice
- Chapter 9: Getting to the Heart of the (Reading) Matter
- Appreciating Critical Reading as a Practical Skill
- Reading between the Lines
- Playing Detective: Examining the Evidence
- Filtering out Irrelevant Material
- Answers to Chapter 10’s Exercises
- Chapter 10: Cultivating Your Critical Writing Skills
- Structuring Your Thoughts on the Page
- Choosing the Appropriate Style of Writing
- Getting Down to the Specifics of Critical Writing
- Answers to Chapter 10’s Exercise
- Chapter 11: Speaking and Listening Critically
- Getting the Most from Formal Talks
- Participating in Seminars and Small Groups
- Democratizing the Learning Environment
- Answers to Chapter 11’s Exercises
- Part 4: Reason and Argument
- Chapter 12: Unlocking the Logic of Real Arguments
- Introducing Real-Life Arguments
- Delving Deeper into Real Arguments
- Answers to Chapter 12’s Exercises
- Chapter 13: Behaving Like a Rational Animal
- Setting out Laws for Thinking Logically
- Seeing How People Use Logic
- Putting Steel in Your Arguments
- Answers to Chapter 13’s Exercises
- Chapter 14: Using Words to Persuade
- Introducing Rhetoric: When an Argument Isn’t an Argument
- Winning When You’re Right
- Debating Successfully When You’re Wrong
- Discerning a Message
- Answers to Chapter 14’s Exercise
- Chapter 15: Presenting Evidence and Justifying Opinions
- Challenging Received Wisdom about the World
- Digging into Scientific Thinking
- Counting on the Fact that People Don’t Understand Numbers: Statistical Thinking
- Answers to Chapter 15’s Exercise
- Part 5: Part of Tens
- Chapter 16: Ten Logical Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
- Not Following Logically
- Begging the Question
- Avoiding “Black-and-White” Thinking
- Being Deliberately Unclear
- Mistaking a Connection for a Cause
- Special Pleading
- Thinking Wishfully
- Detecting the Whiff of Red Herrings
- Attacking Straw Men
- Playing at Words with Humpty Dumpty
- Chapter 17: Ten Arguments that Changed the World
- Arguing that Only an Elite Is Clever Enough to Be in Charge
- Arguing for Breaking the Law
- And Arguing for Always Obeying the Law
- Arguing Against a Greedy Elite Exploiting Everyone Else
- Proving That, “Logically,” God Exists
- Proving That, “in Practice,” God Doesn’t Exist
- Defending Human Rights
- Making Everything Relative
- Thinking Relatively with Einstein
- Posing Paradoxes to Prove Your Point
- Index
- About the Author
- Connect with Dummies
- End User License Agreement