Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies, 2ed
Description
Learn how to argue points effectively, analyze information, and make sound judgments
The ability to think clearly and critically is a lifelong benefit that you can apply in any situation that calls for reflection, analysis, and planning. Being able to think systematically and solve problems is also a great career asset. Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies helps you hone your thinking abilities and become a better communicator. You’ll find hands-on, active instruction and exercises that you can put to work today as you navigate social media and news websites, chat with AI, fact-check your own and others’ views, and more. Become a thinking machine, with this Dummies guide.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Getting Started with Critical Thinking Skills
CHAPTER 1: Entering the Exciting World of Critical Thinking
CHAPTER 2: Peering into the Mind: How People Think
CHAPTER 3: Planting Ideas in Your Head: The Sociology of Thinking
CHAPTER 4: Assessing Your Thinking Skills
Part 2: Developing Your Critical Thinking Skills
CHAPTER 5: Critical Thinking Is Like . . . Solving Puzzles: Reasoning by Analogy
CHAPTER 6: Thinking in Circles: The Power of Recursion
CHAPTER 7: Drawing on Graphics for Thinking
CHAPTER 8: Constructing Knowledge: Information Hierarchies
Part 3: Applying Critical Thinking in Practice
CHAPTER 9: Getting to the Heart of the (Reading) Matter
CHAPTER 10: Cultivating Your Critical Writing Skills
CHAPTER 11: Speaking and Listening Critically
Part 4: Reason and Argument
CHAPTER 12: Unlocking the Logic of Real Arguments
CHAPTER 13: Behaving Like a Rational Animal
CHAPTER 14: Using Words to Persuade
CHAPTER 15: Presenting Evidence and Justifying Opinions
Part 5: Part of Tens
CHAPTER 16: Ten Logical Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
CHAPTER 17: Ten Arguments that Changed the World
Index