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How to Write a Paragraph: The Art of Substantive Writing

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Though close reading and substantive writing are essential skills for the educated person, they are frequently ignored in education. How to Write a Paragraph applies critical thinking tools to the process of writing to guide students towards developing clear, effective, and meaningful written communication.

As a companion to How to Read a Paragraph, this volume in the Thinker’s Guide Library includes activities to sharpen writing skills and overall reasoning abilities. Readers who work through this guide learn to be clearer, more purposeful, more aware of the assumptions guiding their thoughts, and more substantive in their approach to writing.

As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.

46 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2003

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Author 13 books102 followers
August 30, 2020
احتمالا کتاب خوبیه، ولی به درد من نمی‌خورد.
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January 2, 2025
دلیل امتیاز پایین بد بودنش نیست؛ انتظار زیادمه.
به‌هرحال پل و الدر از کله‌گنده‌های حوزهٔ تفکر نقادن و انتظار‌ می‌ره ازشون کلی یاد بگیری؛ ولی این تقریباً تکرار مطالب کتاب تفکر انتقادی بود.

اگه دنبال یه کتاب جمع‌وجور برای نکات اصلی نوشتن هستید، احتمالاً مناسبتون خواهد بود.
می‌شه مطالبش رو هم برای نوشتن (متن غیرداستانی/غیرادبی) و هم برای خوندن دقیق و نقادانه به‌کار برد.

کتاب دو بخش نظری و عملی داره. همون‌طوری که پیداست، بخش دوم تمرین‌هاییه برای تثبیت یادگیری. بخش نظری هم خیلی کوتاهه. تقریباً سی‌صفحه‌ست. (البته کل کتاب کمتر از صدصفحه‌ست.)

نکات کلیش اینه که مفاهیم اساسی رشته‌تون رو یادبگیرید؛ اگه توش نظرهای متضاد دارید، نقطه‌های اختلاف نظر رو پیدا کنید. به علوم دیگه ربطش بدید. موقع نوشتن به وضوح توجه کنید؛ دید خواننده رو فراموش نکنید و باهاش در گفتگو باشید. اون‌قدری به مطالب مسلط باشید که بتونید توی یه جملهٔ ساده خلاصه‌ش کنید و به‌شکل‌های دیگه بیانش کنید.

خلاصه برای منی که عشق نوشتن دارم و تفکر نقاد برام جالبه، خوندنش خوب بود؛ ولی چیزی هم دستمو نگرفت.

ممنون که خوندید.💙

۱۳ دی ۱۴۰۳، خونه.
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Author 8 books23 followers
April 17, 2016
Satisfying for what it tries to accomplish.

I really liked the exercises and the analysis in various subjects. I will keep it to read again in College!
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Author 37 books477 followers
February 29, 2020
Warning. Another short 'book.' Further, the first ten pages are strong and useful. The remaining 34 pages provide writing exercises and examples. There were too many of these. While there were some teachable ideas in this book, the concepts and ideas are straight forward.
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December 15, 2013
I really enjoyed this book. It has given me some great ideas to use with my students. My department head is reading it right now and we should be able to collaborate on new lesson plans which use this information.
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