1. Becoming A Critical Thinker A User Friendly Manual Pdf
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3. Becoming A Critical Thinker A User Friendly Manual
4. Becoming A Critical Thinker A User Friendly Manual Canadian Edition Pdf

Becoming a Critical Thinker: User Friendly Manual. Create a Custom Text: For enrollments of at least 25, create your own textbook by combining chapters from best-selling Pearson textbooks and/or reading selections in the sequence you want. To begin building your custom text, visit www.pearsoncustomlibrary.com. You may also work with a dedicated Pearson Custom editor to. Get this from a library! Becoming a critical thinker: a user-friendly manual. Sherry Diestler. A User-Friendly Manual Becoming a Critical Thinker: A User Friendly Manual trains students to become critical thinkers and thoughtful decision makers. It helps students to distinguish high-quality, well-supported arguments from those with little or no evidence to support them.

The ability to distinguish high quality, well-supported arguments from those that are ineffectual and ill-founded is a vital skill that can be learned, and the production of persuasive pieces of writing and speeches will be improved with practice. Becoming a Critical Thinker is a straightforward and user-friendly text that successfully combines exposure to the basic principles of logic, rhetoric, and argumentation with interesting material that is interdisciplinary in scope.

This Canadian Edition contains many articles, examples and references that reflect our Canadian society, including key thinkers, writers and broadcast media and their views on important current domestic issues such as Aboriginal peoples, free speech and censorship, multiculturalism, and urban development. International concerns have a place too. The new Global Village boxes in each chapter explore topics such as AIDS; microcredit; breast-feeding and IQ; Afghanistan; illegal Immigration; and French language laws.

Canadian students will certainly benefit from exposure to models that are relevant, educational, provocative, and in some cases inspirational.

Colleen Mahy is a full-time professor at George Brown and teaches intro psych, critical thinking, English and Canadian studies; she’s been with the college for 18 years.

Jonathan Mahood is an up-and-coming Canadian cartoonist whose work is now syndicated online by United Press Syndicate.

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- Ambiguity of Quebec Referendum question, regionalism, Sharia law, immigrant employability, Afro-centric schools, residential schools

- Canadian media outlets, Marshall McLuhan, CRTC

- Polar bears, use of plastic bags

- Socialized healthcare, Bisphenol A, alternative healthcare, physical education and childhood obesity, pet food recall

• New Global Village box feature, covering topics such as microcredit, breastfeeding and IQ, Afghanistan, illegal immigration, Benazir Bhutto, and French language laws

• New readings from Jane Jacobs, Lester B. Pearson, Russell Smith, and Stephen Harper

• New two-colour design

• New cartoons from syndicated Canadian cartoonist Jonathan Mahood

• Small boxes

- Stop & Think

- Skill

- Reminder

• Life Application box

Becoming A Critical Thinker A User Friendly Manual Pdf

• Global Village box

End-of-Chapter

• Chapter highlights (summary)

• Key Terms

• Chapter Checkup (quiz)

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• Articles for Discussion (additional readings)

• Questions for Discussion

• Ideas for Writing or Speaking

Becoming A Critical Thinker A User Friendly Manual

• Longer-term Writing Assignment (not in every chapter)

Becoming A Critical Thinker A User Friendly Manual Canadian Edition Pdf

• Films for Analysis and Discussion