Smart Thinking Skills for Critical Understanding and Writing

by Matthew Allen

the study and teaching of critical thinking ( also known as informal logic ) is relatively rare , There is little to guide the keen student or teacher in the development of skills for analysis of everyday work and study . the orientation of most of the avalaible books on this subject is more traditionally logical , and this orientation complicates the processes of teaching and learning applied critical thinking skills, since it tend to remove the use of reasoning and logical analysis form event its most basic social contexts .
Smart Thinking is designed to provide a simple , but not simplistic , guide for the development of critical thinking and analytical skills . it combines the undoubted strengths of the informal logical approach with a newer-but often overlooked insight : that reasoning and analysis are always communicative acts I would not pretend that one can easily resolve the epistemological tensions between . on the one hand , the commonly held commitments to objective

337 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 12, 2020