Concise Guide to Critical Thinking – PDF

Improve your critical thinking and argumentative writing with Lewis Vaughn’s Concise Guide to Critical Thinking (PDF). This affordable eBook offers a clear and concise introduction to critical thinking and argumentative writing, making it easy for students to learn and apply these skills in their academic and professional lives.

Based on the best-selling text, The Power of Critical Thinking, Fifth Edition, this eBook covers important topics in critical thinking, including a chapter on hindrances to critical thinking, fallacies and rhetorical persuaders, inference to the best explanation, writing argumentative essays, and more. It also provides a comprehensive look at scientific reasoning, with chapters on inductive reasoning, scientific theories and inference, causal arguments, and scientific method and theory evaluation.

With exercises that include review questions, critical thinking skill applications, writing assignments and prompts, and self-assessment quizzes, this eBook provides an interactive learning experience that enables you to evaluate evidence, authority, credibility, and arguments confidently.

Readers have given excellent reviews of this textbook, with Nicholas Smith from the Borough of Manhattan Community College saying, “Vaughn’s textbook includes all that an introduction to critical thinking should cover, is well-written, features thought-provoking exercises and examples, and is reasonably priced.” Chris Kramer from the Rock Valley College also added, “Vaughn’s Concise Guide to Critical Thinking does an excellent job in encompassing how to evaluate different theories/hypotheses–in a brief yet detailed manner. It is considerably better than any text I have used for informal logic.”

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