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Dewey Decimal Number: 160 EAN: 9780071214919 Edition: 7th Ed Format: Import ISBN: 0071214917 Label: McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions) Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions) Number Of Pages: 644 Publication Date: 2004-06 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions) Studio: McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions) Average Rating:
 Rating:  - I first read this book more than ten years ago.I first read this book more than ten years ago and I identify it as one of the biggest educational impacts of my entire life. I was about 18 at the time - brilliant, cocky, a member of Mensa and certain there wasn't anything a 'critical thinking' course could teach -me-. *laugh* I took it because I thought it would be an effortless A. An earlier edition of this book was the text, and as other reviewers have pointed out, it teaches you to identify fallacies in rhetoric. If I were ruler of the world, ... Read More Rating:  - Poor Instructional Material... If You Are An Instructor, DO NOT UseThis Book In Your ClassesThis book is next to useless in helping students to understand fallacies and identify them. It is probably the poorest instructional material I have encountered in all of my years in college. Humor was incorporated into this text in an effort to help students better understand the material, however, that effort is a big failure when it comes to this student, and probably also for many others. Instead of helping, the humor detracts from the instructional value of the material and distracts ... Read More Rating: - Critically Thinking, Critically Funny, Critically Astute!!What an awesome textbook! As a critical reasoning, reading, and writing instructor for twelve years, I have used this textbook, off and on, and I always return to it. There is no other textbook like it, but there are a lot of imitators. It infuses humor, pertinent political events, and very clear critical thinking concepts (like claims, fallacies, credibility, etc.)and presents those ideas in ways that make it a pleasure to read and learn from this book. Rating:  - Rhetorical tricks exposedThis is a college textbook that I purchased because I was searching for a book that would review all the rhetorical tricks being used by politicians and special interest groups. For the past six years I've been simultaneously impressed and distressed with the increased sophistication being used to dodge discussing core issues and deceiving people. I believed I needed to further develop my awareness of when someone was using a rhetorical trick to avoid an issue or deceive the public, including myself. ... Read More Rating: - Wonderful senses of humor!Like Andrew Hallock, it did not escape my notice that all the political references were Republicans or conservatives, and I've grown weary of that bent in academia and would have preferred a more balanced look at politics. Nonetheless, this book was hugely enjoyable for me. While I bought it for a class, I would have read it just for a fun. But then, I'm kind of stickler for critical thinking anyway. Fellow students hated the class and had a hard time with it. IMO, critical ... Read More |
