The importance of critical thinking in writing / Robin Roth and Doug Borcoman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roth, Robin, author.

Borcoman, Doug, author.

Series:

Health education collection.

Health education collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Written communication--History.

Written communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 72 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Momentum Press, [2015]

Summary:

By now you have probably heard the term "critical thinking" mentioned frequently in the context of your experience in higher education. Much discussion has taken place among educators, professors and many others regarding how to infuse and incorporate critical thinking into the various disciplines and how to help students such as yourself become better able to use it in their studies as well as in their lives generally. It is of course important to start your study of critical thinking by attempting to define this, at times, elusive concept. But, where shall we start? The very term suggests that it has something to do with offering a critique or, more simply, a judgment about someone or something. To some extent, that is true. Critical thinking requires at the very least that you exercise judgment about a topic or issue that has come to your attention and that interests you, for one reason or another. But, that is not the whole story. For one thing, when you engage in critical thinking in the philosophical sense, it is very important to remember that you are not judging people. Instead, you are judging or evaluating what another person or group of people say or assert.

Contents:

1. What is critical thinking?

A brief history of critical thinking and logic

Moving closer to thinking critically

The 3 basic components of critical thinking

Critical thinking and discussion

What happens in dialogue?

Plato, master of the written dialogue

The dialogue

Two models of communication

Conclusion

The scientific method

Thales: an early philosopher-scientist

Galileo: a Renaissance philosopher-scientist

Kuhn: a contemporary philosopher-scientist

The difference between science and pseudoscience

2. Writing a philosophical journal

What is a philosophical journal?

Adding content to your journal

Writing a philosophy paper

The 3 T method for writing a paper

3. The power of language

Persuasion through rhetoric

Euphemisms

Dysphemisms

Rhetorical definitions and rhetorical explanations

Stereotypes

Innuendo

Loaded or complex questions

Weaselers

Downplayers

Horse laugh/ridicule/sarcasm

Hyperbole

Proof surrogates

Rhetorical analogies

4. Examples of sarcasm and rhetorical devices in critical writing

5. The use of analogies and metaphors

Writing with analogies and metaphors

Index.

Notes:

Co-published with Cognella Academic Publishing.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

913604571