Oliver McAdoo

As Critical Thinking for Aqa

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Produktbeschreibung

AS Critical Thinking for AQA is the definitive textbook for students of the current AQA Advanced Subsidiary Level syllabus. Structured very closely around the AQA specification, it covers the two units of the AS level in an exceptionally clear and student-friendly style.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 203mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 785g
• ISBN-13: 9781138143395
• ISBN-10: 1138143391
• Artikelnr.: 69945424

Autorenporträt

Oliver McAdoo is Head of Critical Thinking at Godalming College. He is part of the team that helped develop the new philosophy specification for the exam board beginning in 2009. He has also created specimen assessment material for this new specification. He is senior examiner and scrutineer in philosophy and co-author of the official exam board textbook.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Foundation Unit
1: Reasoned argument
2: Areas of discourse
3: Claims
4: Analysing and interpreting arguments
5: Assumptions
6: Evaluating arguments
7: Considering consequences
8: Additional evidence, counter-examples and analogies
9: Ambiguity, vagueness and clarifying terms
10: The use of persuasive language
11: Flaws
12: Drawing comparisons and contrasts
13: Presenting your own arguments
14: Unit 1 exam guide
2: Information, Inference and Explanation
15: Presenting information/evidence
16: Numerical and statistical reasoning
17: Patterns and correlations
18: Plausible explanations
19: Drawing safe inferences
20: Unit 2 exam guide