Thinking Skills: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

9781107606302 John Butterworth and Geoff Thwait Thinking Skills Second edition Cover C M Y K ISBN 978-1-107-66996- Critical Thin ...

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Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Second edition Thinking Skills John Butterworth and Geoff Thwaites ...

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1.1 Thinking as a skill Unit 1 Thinking and reasoning 1.2 An introduction to critical thinking 1.3 Solutions not problems 2.1 C ...

1.1 Thinking as a skill 1 This book is about thinking. But it is not about any thinking. It is about those kinds of thinking tha ...

2 Unit 1 Thinking and reasoning to suggest that there are two distinct ways of thinking: cold hard reason on one hand and free-r ...

1.1 Thinking as a skill 3 examination are covered, though not necessarily in the same order as they appear in the specification. ...

4 Unit 1 Thinking and reasoning Beyond that, too, these are sought-after qualities in a great many professions and occupations. ...

1.1 Thinking as a skill 5 Sometimes you may question or disagree with the commentary, especially later on when you have gained e ...

6 Unit 1 Thinking and reasoning Take a statement – we’ll call it S – and ask yourself: ‘If S is true, what else would have to be ...

1.2 An introduction to critical thinking 7 Critical Thinking (and critical thinking) We should also be aware of the difference b ...

8 Unit 1 Thinking and reasoning supports its conclusion; or how strong some piece of evidence is for a claim it is supposed to s ...

1.2 An introduction to critical thinking 9 judgement – using it to form your own views is ultimately up to you. You cannot eval ...

10 Unit 1 Thinking and reasoning WRIGHT BROS NOT FIRST TO FLY Many aviation experts and historians now believe that German-born ...

1.2 An introduction to critical thinking 11 Here are three more negative points that you could have made, and quite probably did ...

12 Unit 1 Thinking and reasoning understand it as a provocative or ‘punchy’ title rather than a literal claim, and take the last ...

1.3 Solutions not problems 13 Some people do not like the word ‘problem’; they say, ‘We don’t have problems, we only have soluti ...

14 Unit 1 Thinking and reasoning Problem solving in early thinking skills exams was firmly founded on these three basic processe ...