Critical Thinking An Introduction to Analytical Reading and Reasoning

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ISBN: 9780199796229

ISBN-10: 019979622X

ISBN-13: 9780199796229

Edition: 2nd 2013

Authors: Larry Wright

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Now in its second edition,Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Analytical Reading and Reasoningprovides 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,…

Book details

List price: $99.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/29/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 9.10" wide x 7.40" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



Preface



Paraphrasing



The Bare-Bones Paraphrase


Introduction


The Concept of Paraphrase


Reading and Paraphrase


Technique and Vocabulary


Human Understanding


Subtler Issues


Two Principles of Paraphrasing


Things to Keep in Mind


Supplemental Exercises


Answers



Reading for Structure: Dependency and Subordination


Complexity


Technique and Vocabulary


Useful Patterns


Tricks for Tough Cases


Systematic Features


Trial and Error Exercise


Supplemental Exercises


Answers



Reading for Reasoning: Paraphrasing Arguments


Reading for a Particular Purpose


Reading for Reasoning


A Shortcut: Schematizing Directly from a Passage


Charitable Schematizing


Supplemental Exercises


Answers



Analyzing Reasoning



Argument Analysis: Answering Questions


Introduction


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 Disagreeement


Supplemental Exercises


Answers



Diagnostic Arguments: Reasoning by Explaining


Introduction


Diganostic Questions


Diagnostic Concepts


Objects and Resources: Different Kinds of Support


Refinements


Diagnostic Investigation


Supplemental Exercises


Answers



Diagnostic Patterns


Introduction


Cause and Correlation


Testimony


Sampling


Counting, Cases: Induction by Enumeration


Circumstantial Evidence


Supplemental Exercises


Answers



Further Applications: Prediction and Recommendation


Introduction


Prediction


Recommendation


Supplemental Exercises


Answers



Fallacies


Introduction


Fallacies of Construction


Critical Fallacies


Supplemental Exercises


Answers


Appendix Deduction


Introduction


Semantic Conflict


Semantic Evaluation


Deductive Arguments


Structure


Tests and Crieteria.


Relative Strength


Summary


Glossary of Important Terms


Index