Thinking Skills: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

7.7 An argument under the microscope 295 This chapter, and the next and final chapter, take a slightly different form from previ ...

296 Unit 7 Critical reasoning: Advanced Level WHOSE ARE THE OLYMPICS ANYWAY? It’s that time again when everyone starts running a ...

7.7 An argument under the microscope 297 ways. By the writing ‘style’, we mean the claims as they are expressed in a particular ...

298 Unit 7 Critical reasoning: Advanced Level should have to bear the costs. But you could equally say that the counter- argumen ...

7.7 An argument under the microscope 299 Games belong to Greece in the sense of being Greece’s property. It is quite sufficient ...

300 Unit 7 Critical reasoning: Advanced Level thinking on your part. But they are also a bit of a luxury because they guide you ...

7.8 Critical writing 301 7.8 Critical writing In the previous chapter you studied a single document and answered some specific q ...

302 Unit 7 Critical reasoning: Advanced Level The history of the Olympic Games – ancient and modern Introduction The modern Olym ...

7.8 Critical writing 303 were held in 1908 in London, UK. Is this confusing you? Don’t worry – it was confusing to everyone back ...

304 Unit 7 Critical reasoning: Advanced Level 1906 3rd Olympiad, year 3 Athens, Greece (sometimes called the ‘interim Games’) 19 ...

7.8 Critical writing 305 DOC 3 Hello, I found your site very informative. I was wondering if you could tell me how a city is cho ...

306 Unit 7 Critical reasoning: Advanced Level DOC 4 Activity You have been asked to speak in a debate on the future of the Olymp ...

7.8 Critical writing 307 fact unless, for instance, it is coupled with the fact that they had been held in Los Angeles only 12 y ...

308 Unit 7 Critical reasoning: Advanced Level You may have left out some of these points and you may have included others. But i ...

7.8 Critical writing 309 three of them from the honour of holding the Games. Developing these themes would provide a substantial ...

310 Unit 7 Critical reasoning: Advanced Level decision, is what is meant by ‘resolving the dilemma’. Shortly you will have to ma ...

Answers to assignments 311 Critical thinking is a way of being as sure as possible about which claims to believe, and which to q ...

312 Answers to assignments c There are four reasons, all closely interdependent: R1 No sport should be allowed in which the p ...

Answers to assignments 313 R2 The leaves belong to a species of beech tree that grows only in warm or temperate regions. R3 Beec ...

314 Answers to assignments R Statistically it can be seen that crime has been rising. IC The current soft approach to crime is n ...