Victoria Pontzer Ehrhardt

Anthem Critical Thinking and Writing Skills (eBook, PDF)

An Introductory Guide

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

'Anthem Critical Thinking and Writing Skills: An Introductory Guide' helps readers in the process of critical thinking and persuasive speaking and writing. The concepts of critical thinking and evaluation are presented in a clear, easy-to-understand format. Students learn how to form a proposition, identify issues, gather evidence, and process an argument.

Logic games, puzzles, and real life examples ask students to evaluate how we evaluate, analyze, and decide. Then a more formal look at induction and deduction challenges students to practice higher-level thinking skills, such as the use of analogies for evaluation, and working through syllogisms to process ideas. Instruction is included on processing a formal persuasive paper. Readers can have some literary logic fun by analyzing old standards like 'Love is a Fallacy' and the persuasive love poem 'The Passionate Shepherd'.

Short chapters and clear practice exercises make the book easy to use as a basic or supplemental text.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857288264
• Artikelnr.: 44472448

Autorenporträt

Victoria Pontzer Ehrhardt is a lifelong educator who has focused on teaching students how to think clearly and write persuasively. A frequent presenter at state and national conferences, Dr Ehrhardt has shared her research and strategies on critical thinking at meetings and conventions sponsored by the College Board, the National Conference for Teachers of English, and the Foundation for Excellent Schools. She currently teaches English at the Harrisburg Area Community College in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction to Critical Thinking
Chapter 2. What Is Argument?
Chapter 3. Research and Gathering Evidence
Chapter 4. Inductive Reasoning
Chapter 5. Deductive Reasoning
Chapter 6. Errors in Reasoning: The Classical Fallacies
Chapter 7. Reasoning through the Ages
Chapter 8. Putting It All Together: A Research Project
Appendix 1. Answers for Practice Exercises and Chapter Reviews
Appendix 2. Logic Test
Appendix 3. Answers to Logic Test
Appendix 4. Persuasive Research Paper Rubric
Index