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ISBN 10: 0205063454
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Author: Sherry Diestler
Developing Instinctive Analytical Skills in Students
Becoming a Critical Thinker: A User Friendly Manual trains students to distinguish high-quality, well-supported arguments from those with little or no evidence to support them.
It develops the skills required to effectively evaluate the many claims facing them as citizens, learners, consumers, and human beings, and also to be effective advocates for their beliefs.
Teaching and Learning Experience
Improve Critical Thinking – Coverage of persuasive speaking, decision-making, the Toulmin model of argumentation, and chapter–end writing and speaking exercisesall teach students to construct and present arguments so that they can gain skill and confidence.
Engage Students – Becoming a Critical Thinker: A User Friendly Manual exposes students to a variety of contemporary and multicultural issues, engaging their understanding of analytical skills through the use of articles and varied examples.
Support Instructors – Teaching your course just got easier! You can create a Customized Text or use our Instructor’s Manual, Electronic “MyTest” Test Bank or PowerPoint Presentation Slides. PLUS, our new Instructor’s Manual has been updated and expanded with revised tests and answer keys, a discussion of chapter exercises, and suggestions for teaching critical thinking concepts.
Becoming a Critical Thinker A User Friendly Manual 6th Table of contents:
Chapter 1 Foundations of Arguments
Who Is a Critical Thinker, and When Do You Need to Be One?
Learning Objectives
The Structure of Argument
The Issue
Examples of Issues
More Examples of Issues
The Conclusion
The Reasons
A Decision-Making Method
Individual or Class Exercise: Making a Decision
Humor as Argument
Chapter Review
Summary
Checkup
Short Answer
True-False
Sentence Completion
Exercises
Exercise 1.1
Exercise 1.2
Exercise 1.3
Educational Ticket
War on Drugs Fails
We Need New Approach
Drugged Driving
Exercise 1.4
Articles for Discussion
16-Year-Old Sailor Was Already Off Course
Young, Younger, Youngest
Risk vs. Ridiculous
Comment Posts
Questions for Discussion
LeBron James’ Decision a Cruel Blow to His Hometown
Roundup
NBA Team Owner Backs LeBron James’ Decision
Questions for Discussion
Onstage and Backstage
Two Jobs. One Actor. What Do You Choose?
Questions for Discussion
Talk-Show Host Angers Disabled Community
Hand Deformity Inherited from Mom Sparks L.A. Dispute
Radio Show on Rights of Disabled Defended
Crippled Woman’s Pregnancy Debated
Questions for Discussion
Ideas for Writing or Speaking
Films for Analysis and Discussion
The Adjustment Bureau (2011, PG 13)
Juno (2007, PG 13)
North Country (2005, R)
Similar Films and Classics
Akeelah and the Bee (2006, PG)
Pursuit of Happyness (2006, PG-13)
Good Night and Good Luck (2005, R)
Steel Magnolias (1989, PG)
Baby Boom (1987, PG)
Chapter 2 Values and Ethics
What Price Ethics, and Can You Afford Not to Pay?
Learning Objectives
Question Man Fictional Character You Admire Most?
Female, 23, curatorial assistant:
Female, 31, bank teller:
Male, 28, office manager:
Male, 38, nuclear industry engineer:
Female, 25, Salvation Army program assistant:
Value Assumptions and Conflicts
Motivation About This Billboard
Class Exercise
Decision Making: Choosing a Job That Reflects Your Values and Enhances Your Life
Changing Jobs Takes Guts, Yields Good Life
Listening to That Inner Voice
A Friendly Push
Ethics—An Important Dimension of Values
Ideal Values versus Real Values
Ethics in Argumentation
Ethical Decision Making
Common Rationalizations Ethics in Action
Examples of the Common Rationalizations
Toulmin’s Model: A Method for Discovering Assumptions
Backing (Support for the Warrant)
Chapter Review
Summary
Checkup
Short Answer
Matching
Exercises
Exercise 2.1
Exercise 2.2
EXERCISE 2.3
Exercise 2.4
Exercise 2.5
Exercise 2.6
Salvation Army Turns Down $100,000 Donation
Articles for Discussion
You Make the Call Is It Good Baseball Strategy or a Weak Attempt to Win?
Questions for Discussion
Staffer Gets Subpoenaed
Questions for Discussion
National Public Radio
Questions for Discussion
Schools’ Peanut Bans Spark Backlash
Alternative to Food Bans
One District’s Compromise
Questions for Discussion
Texas College Admissions Law Under Fire Kids in Top 10% Get in Automatically
What the Two Sides Say
Problems for School
The Other Students
Questions for Discussion
Ideas for Writing or Speaking
Films for Analysis and Discussion
The Fighter (2010, R)
The Dark Knight (2008, PG 13)
Million Dollar Baby (2004, PG-13)
Similar Films and Classics
Sister Act (1993, PG)
The Mighty Ducks (1992, PG)
Do the Right Thing (1989, R)
Chariots of Fire (1981, PG)
The Fountainhead (1949)
Chapter 3 Reality Assumptions
It’s Eleven O’Clock. Do You Know Where Your Assumptions Are?
Learning Objectives
Reality Assumptions
Detecting Reality Assumptions
Extinct Fox Not Extinct, Found in California
Fox Thought to Be Extinct Found in California
How the Sierra Nevada Red Fox Was Found and Identified
California Red Fox Research and Findings
The Importance of Examining Assumptions
Myths and Facts About Suicide
Himalayan Glaciers Melting Deadline ‘a Mistake’
‘Catastrophic Rate’
Class Exercise
What Are the Assumptions?
Deductive Reasoning
Validity in Deductive Arguments
Using Toulmin’s Method to Understand Deduction
The Uses of Deductive Reasoning
Deductive Reasoning Helps Us Discover Reality Assumptions and Test Our Logic
Using Deductive Reasoning to Discover Truth and to Make Decisions
Example
Decoding
Decoding
Class Exercise
Using Deductive Reasoning to Combat Prejudice and Stereotyping
Using Deduction to Understand Argument and to Argue Constructively
Chapter Review
Summary
Checkup
Short Answer
Sentence Completion
True-False
Exercises
Exercise 3.1
Exercise 3.2
Exercise 3.3
Articles for Discussion
Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits
Questions for Discussion
Can Blacks Be Racist?
Questions for Discussion
Wasted Food, Discovered Souls
Questions for Discussion
Bearer of Bad News
NASA Launches Probe to Inform Pluto of Demotion
Questions for Discussion
Ideas for Writing or Speaking
Films for Analysis and Discussion
He’s Just Not That Into You (2009, PG-13)
Taken (2008, PG 13)
The Departed (2006, R)
Similar Films and Classics
Crash (2005, R)
The Verdict (1981, R)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Twelve Angry Men (1957)
Television Shows for Analysis and Discussion
Chapter 4 Inductive Arguments: Statistical and Causal Generalizations
Prove It to Me—What Are the Statistics?
Learning Objectives
Inductive Reasoning
Statistical Evidence
The Many Uses of Statistics
LeBron’s Q Score Takes Huge Hit
LeBron’s Q Score Today?
Healthy Work Environments Give Companies a Competitive Edge
Facts and Figures
How the Research Is Done
The Sample Must Be Large Enough
The Sample Must Represent the Target Audience
The Sample Must Be Random
Checklist for Polls and Statistical Studies
Questions to Ask About Statistical Reports
Using Surveys as Evidence
Statistical Generalizations
Class Exercise
At a Lecture—Only 12 Percent Listen
The Reporting of Statistical Studies: Truths, Half-Truths, and Distortions
Causal Generalizations
Ann Landers
Hume’s Conditions for Cause and Effect
Technical Causation
Multiple Causes
Immediate Causes
Mill’s Analysis of Cause and Effect
Method of Agreement
Method of Difference
Using Difference and Similarity Together to Determine Cause
Chapter Review
Summary
Checkup
Short Answer
Sentence Completion
Matching
Exercises
Exercise 4.1
Exercise 4.2
What Are the Risk Factors for Breast Cancer?
Multiple Causes of Suicide
Self-Segregation Students Stick with Same-Race Groups
Why Do People Start to Smoke?
Exercise 4.3
The Meth Epidemic
Questions for Discussion
Understanding Facebook Addiction Why Is Social Networking So Addictive? How Did We Get Addicted?
Facebook Gives a Sense of Self-Worth
Facebook Stalking
The Facebook Community
Facebook on Mobile Phones
Questions for Discussion
ISU Researcher Studies Consequences of ‘Hooking Up’ Study Focuses on Risk Behavior
Questions for Discussion
Drugs, Gangs on the Rise in Schools Survey Shows Increase in Gang Activity and Drug Use in Nation’s Schools
Survey: Gangs Are Everywhere
Public Schools vs. Private Schools
Questions for Discussion
Ideas for Writing or Speaking
Longer-Term Writing Assignment
Films for Analysis and Discussion
Moneyball (2011)
The Constant Gardener (2005, R)
Similar Films and Classics
Erin Brockovich (2000, R)
A Civil Action (1998, PG-13)
The China Syndrome (1979, PG)
Chapter 5 Inductive Generalizations: Controlled Studies and Analogies
Who Said So, and Who Are They Anyway?
Learning Objectives
Research Design
Criteria for Evaluating Research Findings
Controversy in Research Findings
New Analysis Reasserts Video Games’ Link to Violence
Study Says Cell Phones Cause Brain Tumors—Are You Safe?
Sickening Experiment on Human Subjects
Questions for Discussion
Checklist for Making, Evaluating, Repairing, and Refuting Arguments
Class Exercise
Defending and Refuting Arguments
Use of Authority: Expert Testimony
An Opinion with Substance
Can Math and Science Help Solve Crimes? Researchers Try to Predict and Prevent Crime Using Sophisticated Mathematical Models
Problems with Expert Testimony
Reasoning by Analogy
Chapter Review
Summary
Checkup
Short Answer
Sentence Completion
Exercises
Exercise 5.1
Exercise 5.2
Exercise 5.3
Exercise 5.4
Exercise 5.5
Exercise 5.6
Exercise 5.7
Exercise 5.8
Exercise 5.9
Authority
Purpose
Coverage
Currency
Objectivity
Accuracy
Articles for Discussion
Food News Blues
Questions for Discussion
$27 Million to Change NYC Signs from All-Caps
Questions for Discussion
Could a Pill Help Fade Traumatic Memories?
Questions for Discussion
Ideas for Writing or Speaking
Films for Analysis and Discussion
Similar Films and Classics
Waiting for Superman (2010, PG)
Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006, PG)
Thank You for Smoking (2005, R)
Chapter 6 Reasoning Errors
I Know What I Think—Don’t Confuse Me with Facts
Learning Objectives
Inadequate Reasons as Fallacies
Faulty Analogies
False Cause: Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
The Slippery Slope
Straw Man
Hasty Conclusions
The False Dilemma
Begging the Question
Fallacies That Mislead
The Red Herring
Ad Hominem: Attacking the Person
Two Wrongs Make a Right
Ad Populum: Jumping on the Bandwagon
Appeal to Tradition: “We’ve Always Done It This Way”
Appeal to Pity
Equivocation
Chapter Review
Summary
Checkup
Short Answer
True-False
Matching
Exercises
Exercise 6.1
What’s My Fallacy?
Game Rules
Scoring
EXERCISE 6.2
Exercise 6.3
Exercise 6.4
Exercise 6.5
Exercise 6.6
EXERCISE 6.7
Articles for Discussion
Ashamed of Strug’s Sacrifice
Kerri Strug Made Reader Cheer
Keep Women Off the Streets
E-Mail Chain Letters Deceive
Sunday Times Reveals Some Eco-Celeb Shame
Rwanda Is So Hot Right Now
Questions for Discussion
On Comparing Global Warming Denial to Holocaust Denial
Questions for Discussion
Does Facebook Make You Dumber? Study Shows Users of Social Networking Site Get Lower Grades
Questions for Discussion
Ideas for Writing or Speaking
Films for Analysis and Discussion
I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009, PG-13)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006, R)
Bulworth (1998, R)
Fargo (1996, R)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Chapter 7 The Power of Language
What’s in a Name?
Learning Objectives
Denotation and Connotation
Pet Shop Boys Reject PETA Name Change Request
The Power of Connotation
Reification: When Words Take on More Power Than Reality
Brand-Ate to Innovate: The Pepsi/Coke Challenge
Meanings Are in People
Case Closed: Bladder Threat, Not Bomb Drunken German Served 9 Months
Sure I’m Committed . . . Oops . . . Bye-Bye
The Problem of Vagueness
Ambiguity in Language
Doublespeak, Including Weasel Words
Chapter Review
Summary
Checkup
Short Answer
Sentence Completion
Exercises
Exercise 7.1
Exercise 7.2
Exercise 7.3
Exercise 7.4
Exercise 7.5
Articles for Discussion
What’s in a Name?
Questions for Discussion
Race-Based Team Names Not Tolerated in Wisconsin
Looking Past the Local Level
A Long-Standing Dispute
Law Provides Fines—And a Loophole
Questions for Discussion
Jennifer Aniston, The R-Word and the Aftermath
Questions for Discussion
Weasel-Words Rip My Flesh!
Questions for Discussion
Ideas for Writing or Speaking
Films for Analysis and Discussion
Yes Man, (2008, PG 13)
Similar Films and Classics
In Good Company (2004, PG-13)
Mean Girls (2004, PG-13)
The N-Word(2004, Not rated.)
Lost in Translation (2003, R)
Crazy People (1990, R)
Chapter 8 Suggestion in Media
Is What You See What You Get? Do You Really Want It?
Learning Objectives
The Lost Art of the Public Speech
Suggestion in Daily Life
Televised Suggestion
The Selection of Issues
The Use of Time
The Selection and Treatment of Guests and Panel Members
What Is Included or Excluded on a Set
The Nonverbal Element of Clothing
The Use of Language
The Use of Camera Angles and Cuts
Camera Distance and Framing
Suggestion in Print Media
The Use of Headlines
The Use of “Leads” or Openings to a News Story
The Balance of Reporting on an Issue
Fairness in Editorial Essays and Letters
Photo Composition
The Power of Media to Shape Information
A Bag of Marketing and Advertising Tricks
Fuzzy Words
Logical Fallacies
Stylized Images and Sounds
Celebrity Associations and Endorsements
Product Placement
The Gestalt Principle
Use of Social Media to Build Customer Loyalty
Foursquare
YouTube
Crowdsourcing
Yelp
Use of Opinion Leaders to Influence the Market
Hotel 71 Chicago Listens
Amber: Born Again Brand Ambassador
Stop Unfavorable Hotel Chatter Dead in its Tracks
Eye Tracking
Neuromarketing
Storytelling as Persuasion
Citizens, Consumers, and Relationships in an Age of Technology
Chapter Review
Summary
Checkup
Short Answer
Sentence Completion
True-False
Exercises
Exercise 8.1
Exercise 8.2
Exercise 8.3
Exercise 8.4
EXERCISE 8.5
Exercise 8.6
Exercise 8.7
Exercise 8.8
Exercise 8.9
Exercise 8.10
Articles for Discussion
U.S. Mayor Uses Twitter to Help Snowbound
Questions for Discussion
Scents and Sensibility
Questions for Discussion
Five Fake Viral Video Campaigns: Great Gimmicks or Bad for Business?
Liquid Mountaineering
The Man in the Jacket
MEGAWOOSH—Bruno Kammerl Jumps
Bike Hero
Proposal in Central Park
Questions for Discussion
The Tyranny of E-Mail
The Inbox of Kings
For the Love of E-Mail
Beating Back the E-Mail Tsunami
Faster, Faster
Questions for Discussion
Ideas for Writing or Speaking
Films for Analysis and Discussion
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, (2011, P.G. 13)
Similar Films and Classics
The Social Network (2010, PG-13)
State of Play (2009, PG-13)
Thank You for Smoking (2006, R)
The Truman Show (1998, PG)
Broadcast News (1987, R)
Network (1976, R)
Meet John Doe (1936)
Chapter 9 Fair-Mindedness
It’s You and Me, Kid, and I’m Not So Sure About You.
Learning Objectives
How We Defend Our Egos
Conformity and Ways to Overcome It
Emotional Reasoning and Rational Responses
Ways to Deal with Emotional Reasoning
Points of Logical Vulnerability
Antidotes for Points of Logical Vulnerability
Actively and Accurately Listening: Developing Empathy
The Art of Listening Well
Questions for Discussion
Precautions About Active Listening
Chapter Review
Summary
Checkup
Sentence Completion
Short Answer
Exercises
Exercise 9.1
Exercise 9.2
Exercise 9.3
Exercise 9.4
Exercise 9.5
Articles for Discussion
Excerpts from How Doctors Think
Questions for Discussion
Create Your Own Path
Don’t be afraid to take a contrarian point of view.
Never stop learning or pushing the boundaries of your surroundings.
Make your own path; don’t follow someone else’s.
Questions for Discussion
The Lock: They Argue and I Argue Back. But I Never Seem to Win. The Key: Listen—Just Listen, and You’ll Start to Win.
Questions for Discussion
It Happened: To Deny That the Holocaust Occurred Is to Set the Preconditions for Another One
Questions for Discussion
For Women Only—What You Need to Know About the Inner Lives of Men
What It Means
Question 14:
Questions for Discussion
Breakfast and Tousled Cornrows: A Tale of Logical Vulnerability
Questions for Discussion
Ideas for Writing or Speaking
Films for Analysis and Discussion
Amazing Grace (2006, PG)
Similar Films and Classics
The Last Samurai (2004, R)
Freaky Friday (2003, PG)
Pieces of April (2003, PG-13)
Legally Blonde (2001, PG-13)
School Ties (1992, PG-13)
The Doctor (1991, PG-13)
Pretty Woman (1990, R)
Stand and Deliver (1988, PG)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
Chapter 10 Persuasive Speaking
What’s Your Point? How Do You Sharpen It?
Learning Objectives
Being an Advocate of Ideas: Communicating Publicly
The Best Ways to Deal with Speech Fear
Audience Analysis
The Three Elements of a Persuasive Argument: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos
Ethos: Speaker Credibility
Logos: Logical Organization and Credible Content
Sample Persuasive Speech Outline Using the Problem-Solution Format
Social Networks: A Major Threat to Your Privacy
Bibliography
Sample Persuasive Speech Outline Using Monroe’s Motivated Sequence
Consider Fair Trade Coffee
Bibliography
Pathos: Emotional Appeal
Problem Solving and Collaborative Decision Making
Prerequisites to Problem Solving
The Problem-Solving Method
Chapter Review
Summary
Checkup
Matching
Sentence Completion
Short Answer
Exercises
Exercise 10.1
Exercise 10.2
Exercise 10.3
EXERCISE 10.4
Exercise 10.5
Articles for Discussion
Don’t Be Shy
Questions for Discussion
The Gettysburg Address
Questions for Discussion
Ideas for Writing or Speaking
Films for Analysis and Discussion
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