Thinking skills / John Butterworth and Geoff Thwaites.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.Description: 280 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0521521491 (pbk.)
- 9780521521499 (pbk.)
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"First published 2005. Reprinted 2005"--T.p. verso.
Includes index.
Introduction : Thinking as a skill -- Critical thinking : What is an argument? ; Recognising arguments ; Responding to arguments ; Analysing arguments ; More complex arguments ; Claims ; Conclusions ; Drawing conclusions : inference ; Assumptions ; Sound or unsound? ; Finding flaws ; Challenging an argument ; Lending support ; Explanation ; Looking at evidence ; More about evidence ; Case study : who's telling the truth? ; Case study : collision course ; Introducing longer arguments ; Applying analysis skills ; Critical evaluation ; Further argument ; The appliance of science ; Conditions ; Principles ; An argument under the microscope ; Synthesis ; Critical marking -- Problem solving : What do we mean by a 'problem'? ; How do we solve problems? ; Selecting and using information ; Processing data ; Finding methods of solution ; Solving problems by searching ; Spatial reasoning ; Recognising patterns ; Making choices and decisions ; Using models ; Combining skills - using imagination ; Using other mathematical methods ; Use of more complex diagrams ; Modelling and investigating ; Analysis : hypotheses, reasons, and inference ; Have you solved it? -- End-of-unit assignments : answers and comments.
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