Critical Thinking Skills: Developing Effective Analysis and Argument (Palgrave Study Skills)

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This assignment will also assess the application of critical thinking to different situations as well as assessment instruments that can be used to measure critical thinking. Recommending Critical Thinking Skills will help your students develop this important set of skills and improve their grades. Moreover, the book also enables the reader to assess their own skills which can be quite useful for writing arguments and identifying the possible flaws in the same. This book is not meant to be read line by line because there are certain pages that contain obvious information. This book helped me immensely with my critical thinking skills, so much so I can see the benefits in other parts of my education.

The book effectively clarifies what critical thinking is and how it is used in academic reading, writing and note-taking. At whatever stage of learning you are at, Critical Thinking Skills takes the seemingly baffling art of analysis and makes it not so baffling.

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There are checklists in this book to evaluate your own essays, such checking for internal consistency, logic rules, lines of reasoning, a clear thesis statement etc. This easy to follow, step-by step guide to developing reasoning skills even applies the techniques to tasks such as reading, note-taking, and writing. But then, sometimes it is imperative to get through the rudiments of a subject - to develop deeper insights into the subject. It really doesn't teach you anything different or anything more than what your average high school english teacher will teach you. Language and thinking are unique abilities of human beings that separate them from other living things.

The exercises are great as they underpin the knowledge and its surprising how much you take in as you work your way through each chapter.