Becoming a Critical Thinker: A User Friendly Manual - Softcover

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Sherry Diestler has written a straightforward text to train students to distinguish well-supported arguments from ineffectual arguments with little or no evidence to support them. She develops students' skills required to effectively evaluate the many claims facing them, from classic sources as well as contemporary print and broadcast media, as citizens, learners, consumers, and human beings, and also to be effective advocates for their beliefs through both writing and public speaking.

• Combines basic principles of logic, rhetoric, and argumentation
• Provides extensive contemporary, multicultural issues for students from a variety of disciplines and subject areas
• Covers decision-making and the Toulmin model of argumentation
• Teaches students the fundamentals of persuasive speaking
• Includes end-of-chapter writing and speaking exercises