- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Longman; 7 edition (28 May 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0131829939
- ISBN-13: 978-0131829930
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 16.2 x 1.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 537,479 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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For all level Critical Thinking, Argumentative Writing, and Informal Logic courses.
This highly popular text helps students bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis. It teaches them to respond to alternative points of view and develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject.
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Prentice Hall is proud to bring you the seventh edition of this highly successful critical thinking guide. In addition to the revisions in the text, we have thoroughly revised the Companion Website™ at www.prenhall.com/browne. This free resource for students now includes:
Getting Started passages. These exercises will consist of 1 to 2 sentence arguments for early chapters, moving to longer passages as the chapters progress. This is to help the student practice his or her argument skills.
Web Destinations. The site will include content specific links for each chapter, giving students the opportunity to do research and discover more information on the concepts presented in the text.
Frequently Asked Questions for each chapter. This resource will provide a list of common questions and answers about the material covered in the text.
Model Student Papers. This Website will provide model papers so students can view the elements of a good argument paper, how it's written, its appearance, and its purpose.
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120 of 125 people found the following review helpful
Read it but not necessary to buy it.
16 April 2004
Format:Paperback
The issue is that we don't ask the right questions to understand a piece of information and form our independent opinion consistently.
The conclusion is to form your own independent opinion by asking the following questions and evaluating the answers objectively:
1. What are the issues and the conclusion?
2. What are the reasons?
3. What words or phrases are ambiguous?
4. What are the value conflicts and assumptions?
5. Are there any fallacies in the reasoning?
6. How good is the evidence?
7. Are there rival causes?
8. Are the statistics deceptive?
9. What significant information is omitted?
10. What reasonable conclusions are possible?
It is a good book because it gives a very good framework along with a lot of examples and practice work. There is also a companion website www.prenhall.com/browne.
You need to get a copy of this from a library and practice the basic premise of the book. After that, you need to practice.
34 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Demolishing the Wrong Arguments
20 Feb 2006
Format:Paperback
This slim volume is a textbook on "critical thinking," which seems to be the art of argumentative analysis. You read an argument, ask a series of questions, and thereby test the worth of the argument.
A chapter is devoted to each question, and there are exercises at the end for students to hone their skills. Most of the questions are common sense, but some might not be so obvious if you have your mind in neutral as you skim over an editorial or a brief.
All in all the book is an excellent exercise in deconstructing deception and ferreting out fuzzy thinking. It give little guidance, however, in how to construct a sound argument. It seems to me that recognizing poor argumentation is only half of critical thinking. sound argumentation is the other half.
A chapter is devoted to each question, and there are exercises at the end for students to hone their skills. Most of the questions are common sense, but some might not be so obvious if you have your mind in neutral as you skim over an editorial or a brief.
All in all the book is an excellent exercise in deconstructing deception and ferreting out fuzzy thinking. It give little guidance, however, in how to construct a sound argument. It seems to me that recognizing poor argumentation is only half of critical thinking. sound argumentation is the other half.
46 of 48 people found the following review helpful
Outstanding
16 Sep 2004
Format:Paperback
Currently I am studying for the LSAT (Law School Aptitude Test) The major section on the test is logical reasoning. I have read many books from LSAT books to books on critical reasoning. This book has finally made everything clear to me. It presents topics in understandable language, with excellent questions to ask as you read or hear an argument. If you are preparing for any test such as LSAT or GMAT or just want to be able to understand arguments that you hear on TV or editorials in newspapers or political speaches, get this book.
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