Smart Thinking: Skills for Critical Understanding and Writing
Title: Smart Thinking: Skills for Critical Understanding and Writing
Author(s): Matthew Allen
Publisher: Oxford
Date: 2005
Pages: 207
Size: 3.39 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English
SMART THINKING is a practical step-by-step guide to improving skills in analysis, critical thinking, and the effective communication of arguments and explanations. With an acccessible and straightforward style, this book is of great use for students at university and also final-year school who are looking to improve their analytical skills. [+/-]
This second edition treats reasoning as an aspect of communication, not an abstract exercise in logic. It not only provides detailed advice on how to practice better analytical skills, but also demonstrates their application to finding information and writing more coherently. The focus in this book is on improving one's own reasoning rather than simply reading others' arguments. In particular, SMART THINKING emphasises how to develop arguments that are coherent and take account of their audience and context.
Features of this new edition include:
• An updated glossy, a guide to further reading, and a guide to important skills
• Aditional advice on casting and developing arguments
• A new chapter at the end of the book that demonstrates, in an extended example, the skills learnt in the book
• A more thorough treatment of how to find and use information via reasoning and
• Exercises and review questions in each chapter to enhance knowledge and test readers' skills
About the author
Matthew Allen is an Associate Professor who coordinates the Internet Studies Program, and Associate Dean Teaching and Learning, Humanities, at Curtin University of Technology.
This second edition treats reasoning as an aspect of communication, not an abstract exercise in logic. It not only provides detailed advice on how to practice better analytical skills, but also demonstrates their application to finding information and writing more coherently. The focus in this book is on improving one's own reasoning rather than simply reading others' arguments. In particular, SMART THINKING emphasises how to develop arguments that are coherent and take account of their audience and context.
Features of this new edition include:
• An updated glossy, a guide to further reading, and a guide to important skills
• Aditional advice on casting and developing arguments
• A new chapter at the end of the book that demonstrates, in an extended example, the skills learnt in the book
• A more thorough treatment of how to find and use information via reasoning and
• Exercises and review questions in each chapter to enhance knowledge and test readers' skills
About the author
Matthew Allen is an Associate Professor who coordinates the Internet Studies Program, and Associate Dean Teaching and Learning, Humanities, at Curtin University of Technology.
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