Critical Thinking An Introduction to Analytical Reading and Reasoning

Name: Critical Thinking An Introduction to Analytical Reading and Reasoning
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ISBN: 9780195130331

ISBN-10: 0195130332

ISBN-13: 9780195130331

Edition: 2001

Authors: Larry Wright

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Extensively classroom-tested, Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Analytical Reading and Reasoning provides a non-technical 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 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…

Book details

List price: $67.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 8.90" wide x 6.18" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Chapters 1 and 4-8 open with an Introduction


Each chapter ends with Supplemental Exercises and Answers


Preface



Paraphrasing



The Bare-Bones Paraphrase


The Concept of Paraphrase


Reading and Paraphrase


Technique and Vocabulary


Human Understanding


Subtler Issues


Two Principles of Paraphrasing


Things to Keep in Mind



Reading For Structure: Dependency and Subordination


Complexity


Technique and Vocabulary


Useful Patterns


Tricks for Tough Cases


Systematic Features


Trial and Error Exercise



Reading For Reasoning: Paraphrasing Arguments


Reading for a Particular Purpose


Reading for Reasoning


A Shortcut: Schematizing Directly from a Passage


Charitable Schematizing



Analyzing Reasoning



Argument Analysis: Answering Questions


The Purpose of Analysis


The Fundamental Concepts: Questions and Answers


Refining the Apparatus and Exercising Our Skills


Evaluating Arguments: How Good Are the Reasons?


Interim Summary: What We Have Learned So Far


Dealing With Disagreement



Diagnostic Arguments


Diagnostic Questions


Diagnostic Concepts


Diagnostic Articulation


Refinements


Diagnostic Investigation



Diagnostic Patterns


Cause and Correlation


Testimony


Sampling


Counting Case


S: Induction by Enumeration


Circumstantial Evidence



Further Applications: Prediction and Recommendation


Prediction


Recommendation



Fallacies


Fallacies of Construction


Critical Fallacies


Appendix. deduction


Introduction


Semantic Conflict


Semantic Evaluation


Deductive Argments


Structure


Tests and Criteria


Relative Strength


Summary


Glossary of Important Terms


Index