Smart Thinking: Skills for Critical Understanding and Writing

Adı: Akıllıca Düşünmek: Eleştirel Kavrayış ve Yazı Yazma Becerileri
Yazar: Matthew Allen
Yayınevi: OUP Australia and New Zealand; 2Rev Ed edition (24 Aug 2004)
Sayfa: 207
Boyut: 3.57 MB
Türü: PDF, Adobe Reader
Dil: İngilizce
ISBN-10: 0195517334
ISBN-13: 978-0195517330

Kitap Açıklaması

Akıllıca Düşünmek: Eleştirel Kavrayış ve Yazı Yazma Becerileri

Smart Thinking: Skills for Critical Understanding and Writing (2ed) is a practical step-by-step guide to improving skills in analysis, critical thinking, and the effective communication of arguments and explanations. The book combines an accessible and straightforward style, with a strong foundation of knowledge. The text treats reasoning as an aspect of communication, not an abstract exercise in logic. The book not only provides detailed advice on how to practise analytical skills, but also demonstrates how these skills can be used in research and writing. In particular, it emphasises how to develop arguments that are coherent and that take account of their audience and context.

This second edition is a practical step-by-step guide to improving skills in analysis, critical thinking, and the effective communication of arguments and explanations. The text treats reasoning as an aspect of communication and emphasises how to develop arguments that are coherent and that take account of their audience and context.

İçindekiler

Preface to First Edition 
Preface to Second Edition 
How to Use this Book 

1 Smart Thinking 
  What is smart thinking? 
  How do we study smart thinking? 
  Why do we need to 'think smart'? 

2 Claims: The Key Elements of Reasoning 
  Understanding language 
  More about claims 
  Claims and reasoning 
  Review 

3 Linking: The Key Process in Reasoning 
  Links between claims 
  The analytical structure of reasoning 
  Learning more about the analytical structure 
  Review 

4 Understanding the Links between Claims 
  Dependent premises 
  Special functions of premises 
  The link from premises to conclusion 
  Review 

5 More Effective Reasoning I: Better Claims 
  Well-formed claims 
  Well-founded claims 
  Review 

6 More Effective Reasoning II: Better Links 
  Effective use of dependent premises 
  Relevance 
  Strength of support 
  Review 

7 What Kinds of Reasoning are There? 
  Deductive and inductive reasoning 
  Categorical and propositional logic 
  Five types of reasoning 
  Review 

8 Research, Reasoning, and Analysis 
  Reasoning and analysis 
  Information understood by where we find it 
  Information as it relates to other information 
  Information classified by the topic under investigation 
  Information as it relates to how we are using it 
  Direct and indirect sources 
  Review 

9 Planning and Creating Your Reasoning 
  The key analytical questions 
  Using the analytical structure for planning 
  Review 

10 Bringing It All Together: Narrative and Structure 
  Example text 
  Casting and notes on each paragraph 
  Capturing the essence of the text 
  Overall narrative flow of the text 

Summary 
Answers, Discussion, and Further Advice 
Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts 
Further Reading 
Guide to Important Skills 

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