Title: Becoming a Critical Thinker: A User Friendly Manual (4th Edition) Diestler, Sherry
Publisher: Pearson College Div
Publication Date: 2005
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0131779982
ISBN 13: 9780131779983
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 4th Edition
Condition: New

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This book 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. Chapter topics include the foundations of arguments, reality and value assumptions and ethics, inductive arguments and generalizations, reasoning errors, the power of language, media literacy, fairmindedness, and persuasive speaking. For critical thinkers who want to be discerning about the messages they read or hear; make decisions based on careful consideration of both facts and values; be alert to distortion in reporting and advertising; and, defend their own viewpoints.

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Sherry Diestler has written a straightforward text to train students to distinguish well-supported arguments from ineffectual arguments with little or no evidence to support them. She develops students' skills required to effectively evaluate the many claims facing them, from classic sources as well as contemporary print and broadcast media, as citizens, learners, consumers, and human beings, and also to be effective advocates for their beliefs through both writing and public speaking.

Features

Combines basic principles of logic, rhetoric, and argumentation
Provides extensive contemporary, multicultural issues for students from a variety of disciplines and subject areas
Covers decision-making and the Toulmin model of argumentation
Teaches students the fundamentals of persuasive speaking
Includes end-of-chapter writing and speaking exercises

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