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Becoming a Critical Thinker: User Friendly Manual, 5/E
Sherry Diestler, Contra Costa College

ISBN-10: 0132413132
ISBN-13: 9780132413138

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 496 pp
Published: 12/28/2007

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For courses in Critical Thinking, Informal Logic, Rhetoric, Argumentation, and English courses which cover the Argumentative Essay.

 

This text trains students to distinguish high-quality, well-supported arguments from arguments with little or no evidence to support them. It develops the skills required to effectively evaluate the many claims facing them as citizens, learners, consumers, and human beings, and also to be effective advocates for their beliefs.

Hallmark features of Diestler, Becoming a Critical Thinker:

  • The combined basic principles of logic, rhetoric, and argumentation.

    • Prepares students to be discerning about the messages they read or hear.

  • Coverage of decision-making and the Toulmin model of argumentation.

    • Empowers students to use principles of critical thinking and argumentation and quickly see the application in different dimensions of their lives.

  • Contemporary, multicultural issues throughout using diverse sources.

    • Broadens students' understanding of issues with the use of articles and examples.

  • Coverage of persuasive speaking principles.

    • Teaches students to construct and present arguments so that they can gain skill and confidence as advocates–applying what they have learned in their personal lives, and in social and political arenas.

  • Chapter-end writing and speaking exercises–Various levels of difficulty.

    • Gives students opportunities to practice critical thinking skills with useful and enjoyable activities.

New features in Becoming a Critical Thinker, 5/e:

  • An expanded and updated instructor’s manual with revised tests and answer keys for each chapter, discussions of chapter exercises, and suggestions for teaching critical thinking concepts.
  • New articles and essays.  
    • Including articles and essays on the following topics: value conflicts in college admissions policies and in coaching , the use of statistics to advise college students about identity theft, alcoholism, and STDs,  new research on gender differences, the redefining of Pluto as a dwarf planet  and  a sheriff-coroner’s report on the growing epidemic of methamphetamine addiction                    
  • Expanded concepts, explanations, and applications of critical thinking elements and skills.
    • These features include key terms at the end of each chapter, ideas for life application, and suggested films to use in conjunction with the chapter concepts.
  • Updated design.
    • Chapter exercises are now located at the end of each chapter.
  • New material includes a section on creative problem solving, an expanded coverage of advertising and marketing techniques, and a discussion of the difficulties with and cures for emotional reasoning.

 

Preface 

 

1  Foundations of Arguments 

What Is a Critical Thinker and When Do You Need to Be One

 

2  Values and Ethics

What Price Ethics and Can You Afford Not to Pay?

 

3  Reality Assumptions 

It’s Eleven O’Clock. Do You Know Where Your Assumptions Are?

 

4  Inductive Arguments: Statistical And Causal Generalizations 

Prove It to me: What Are the Statistics?

 

5  Inductive Generalizations: Controlled Studies and Analogies

Who Said So? And Who Are They Anyway?

 

6  Reasoning Errors

I Know What I Think–Don’t Confuse Me with Facts

 

7  The Power of Language 

What’s in a Name?

          

8  Suggestion in Media 

Is What You See What You Get? Do You Really Want It?

           

9  Fair-Mindedness 

It’s You and Me, Kid, and I’m Not So Sure About You

       

10  Persuasive Speaking 

What’s Your Point? How Do You Sharpen It?

 

Glossary 

Index 

    For courses in Critical Thinking, Informal Logic, Rhetoric, Argumentation, and English courses which cover the Argumentative Essay.

    This text trains students to distinguish high-quality, well-supported arguments from arguments with little or no evidence to support them. It develops the skills required to effectively evaluate the many claims facing them as citizens, learners, consumers, and human beings, and also to be effective advocates for their beliefs.

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