THINKING FOR YOURSELF [Paperback]

THINKING FOR YOURSELF: DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS THROUGH READING AND WRITING offers a unique integration of composition, reading, and critical thinking. As you complete the book's writing assignments, you'll see how your writing reflects your thinking and how self-directed improvement in thinking also improves your writing. The book offers step-by-step instruction, humor, cartoons, and up-to-date social and political examples as a foundation for lifelong improvement in thinking and writing. Available with InfoTrac Student Collections http://gocengage.com/infotrac.PART I: BASICS OF CRITICAL THINKING. 1. Observation Skills: What's Out There? 2. Word Precision: How Do I Describe It? 3. Facts: What's Real? 4. Inferences: What Follows? PART II: PROBLEMS OF CRITICAL THINKING. 5. Assumptions: What's Taken for Granted? 6. Opinions: What's Believed? 7. Viewpoints: What's the Filter? PART III: FORMS AND STANDARDS OF CRITICAL THINKING. 8. Argument: What's a Good Argument? 9. Fallacies: What's a Faulty Argument? 10.Inductive Reasoning: How Do I Reason from Evidence? 11.Inductive Fallacies: How Can Inductive Reasoning Go Wrong? 12.Deductive Reasoning: How Do I Reason from Premises? APPENDIX.