03274nam a2200397 a 4500 ebr10718675 CaPaEBR m o u cr cn||||||||| 111024s2011 enka s 001 0 eng d 2011039754 9781843318705 (pbk.) 1843318709 (pbk.) 9780857288264 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)849249780 LB1631 .E475 2011eb 808/.042071 23 Ehrhardt, Victoria Pontzer. Anthem critical thinking and writing skills [electronic resource] : an introductory guide / Victoria Pontzer Ehrhardt. Critical thinking and writing skills London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2011. vi, 132 p. : ill. Anthem learning Includes index. Machine generated contents note: Introduction to Critical Thinking What is Argument? Research and Evidence Inductive Reasoning Deductive Reasoning The Classical Fallacies Reasoning Through the Ages Putting It All Together -- A Research Project Appendix 1: Answers for Practice Exercises and chapter Reviews Appendix 2: Logic Test Appendix 3: Answers for Logic Test Appendix 4: Persuasive Paper Rubric. " Anthem Guide to Critical Thinking Skills: Language and Logic' guides readers in the process of critical thinking and persuasive speaking and writing. The text discusses informal thinking, the formal processes of induction, deduction, and syllogistic reasoning, in a clear format that makes it easy for the "beginning logician" to process. Students learn how to form a proposition, identify issues, gather evidence, and process an argument. To get started, logic games, puzzles, and real life examples ask students to consider how we evaluate, analyze, and decide. What happens if Janie says, 'Mom, can I go to the party? All of my friends are going!' And Mom responds, 'What if all of your friends jumped off the empire State building?' Is 'all of my friends are going' a good reason? Does mom have a point? Language and Logic will help students evaluate these everyday decisions. Then a more formal look at induction and deduction challenges students to practice higher-level thinking skills, such as using analogies for evaluation, and working through syllogisms to process ideas. After a review of the Greek Fallacies, readers can have some literary logic fun by analyzing old standards like 'Love is a Fallacy' and the persuasive love poem 'The Passionate Shepherd'"-- Provided by publisher. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. English language Composition and exercises Study and teaching (Secondary) English language Rhetoric Study and teaching (Higher) Critical thinking Study and teaching (Secondary) Critical thinking Study and teaching (Higher) Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10718675 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 27965 27965