Smart Thinking: Skills for Critical Understanding and Writing, 2nd Ed

MORE EFFECTIVE REASONING I: BETTER CLAIMS 67 the argument. Hence, all of the next chapter, which discusses in detail the effecti ...

68 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING audiences will believe it to be true. Well-founded claims are ...

6 More Effective Reasoning II: Better Links Writing well-formed and well-founded claims is only half the task of effective reaso ...

70 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING Effective use of dependent premises Dependent premises provid ...

MORE EFFECTIVE REASONING II: BETTER LINKS 71 overcomes this source of confusion. Claims 2 and 3 make clear the exact relation- s ...

72 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING ...©•©... © Claims that argue for or explain another claim ar ...

MORE EFFECTIVE REASONING II: BETTER LINKS 73 these premises is a reflection of the difficulty of thinking deeply enough about co ...

74 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING conclusion is obvious. In fact, from the point of view of the ...

MORE EFFECTIVE REASONING II: BETTER LINKS 75 conventional sense of good dress', then, clearly, the claims about his hat, trouser ...

76 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING b. Now, first of all, privatisation leads to competition and, ...

MORE EFFECTIVE REASONING II: BETTER LINKS 77 Claim 3 mentions the words 'university' and 'quality' and is demonstrably rele- van ...

78 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING Exercise 6.4 Go back to exercise 6.3 and review what you have ...

MORE EFFECTIVE REASONING II: BETTER LINKS 79 want to develop an effective argument or explanation, we have to decide which premi ...

80 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING Here is another example that shows how context involves both ...

MORE EFFECTIVE REASONING II: BETTER LINKS 81 always offer enough support for your audience to be convinced that the conclusion o ...

82 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING of compelling evidence before the orthodox view was overturne ...

MORE EFFECTIVE REASONING II: BETTER LINKS 83 either implicitly or explicitly. For example, to support the conclusion that 'The p ...

84 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING needed here? Well, to say simply that the economy benefits ma ...

MORE EFFECTIVE REASONING II: BETTER LINKS 85 groups would need to be covered. By contrast, in a report on the legal aspects of E ...

86 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING Issues of scope and certainty are also important in reasoning ...