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

BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER: NARRATIVE AND STRUCTURE 147 The most likely explanation of students' failures to reference is that th ...

148 SMART THINKING: SKILLS FOR CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING & WRITING 8 Commences the second part of the text, as cued by the ques ...

Summary This book has concentrated on the analytical structure format, primarily as a way of learning about reasoning, but also ...

Answers, Discussion, and Further Advice Chapter 1 Exercise 1.1 Asking questions (of ourselves and others). Your questions are de ...

ANSWERS, DISCUSSION, AND FURTHER ADVICE 151 questions. Too often we begin to answer a question or two that concern us without ha ...

152 ANSWERS, DISCUSSION, AND FURTHER ADVICE Exercise 2.6 Claims a and c are explicit value claims; claim b has an implied value ...

ANSWERS, DISCUSSION, AND FURTHER ADVICE 153 d John is a fully qualified lawyer because he passed his final exams. (Change of ord ...

154 ANSWERS, DISCUSSION, AND FURTHER ADVICE conclusion, then the argument would make very little, if any, sense at all. In this ...

ANSWERS, DISCUSSION, AND FURTHER ADVICE 155 (claim 3 in this example) plays a significant role in explaining why the other prem- ...

156 ANSWERS, DISCUSSION, AND FURTHER ADVICE Second, do not write claims that make no sense on their own. While narrative writing ...

ANSWERS, DISCUSSION, AND FURTHER ADVICE 157 It would be incorrect to diagram their relationship thus: Y Y Claims 2 and 3 are rel ...

158 ANSWERS, DISCUSSION, AND FURTHER ADVICE 4 + 5 1 + 3 Exercise 3.6 [The current Australian government is, in many ways, challe ...

ANSWERS, DISCUSSION, AND FURTHER ADVICE 159 + + + Y + *-J— Claim 1 The subject is: 'The current Australian government is' The pr ...

160 ANSWERS, DISCUSSION, AND FURTHER ADVICE element. It is saying 'definitely'. Alternatively, as I have done, it can be exclude ...

ANSWERS, DISCUSSION, AND FURTHER ADVICE 161 Exercise 4.2 Here is one possible answer. Each premise functions as a different reas ...

162 ANSWERS, DISCUSSION, AND FURTHER ADVICE c Studying critical thinking is not the same as studying moral reasoning, d Studying ...

ANSWERS, DISCUSSION, AND FURTHER ADVICE 163 is certain that the legislation was passed. Voluntary euthanasia sounds more clinica ...

164 ANSWERS, DISCUSSION, AND FURTHER ADVICE interpret it as a claim about what the person has imagined; rather, the phrase 'I im ...

ANSWERS, DISCUSSION, AND FURTHER ADVICE 165 Exercise 5.4 a An argument to support this claim would have to address the meaning o ...

166 ANSWERS, DISCUSSION, AND FURTHER ADVICE and what we leave for the audience to accept or reject on their own. (See chapter 9. ...