Imagine a class where students are actively and personally engaged in thinking critically while also discovering how to apply those thinking skills in everyday life. Now imagine those same students confidently participating in class, working efficiently through the exercises outside class, and performing better in the course.



With Connect Critical Thinking, students can achieve this success. Connect Critical Thinking is a first: a learning program with pedagogical tools that are anchored in research on critical thinking.



Along with Moore & Parker?s engaging writing style and the wealth of topical exercises and examples that are relevant to students? lives, Connect Critical Thinking helps ensure that students can come to class confident and prepared. What other course provides students with skills they can apply so broadly to success in school and success in life?



Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: What Is Critical Thinking, Anyway?

Chapter 2: Two Kinds of Reasoning

Chapter 3: Clear Thinking, Critical Thinking, and Clear Writing

Chapter 4: Credibility

Chapter 5: Persuasion Through Rhetoric: Common Devices and Techniques

Chapter 6: More Rhetorical Devices: Psychological and Related Fallacies

Chapter 7: More Fallacies

Chapter 8: Deductive Arguments I: Categorical Logic

Chapter 9: Deductive Arguments II: Truth-Functional Logic

Chapter 10: Thinking Critically About Inductive Reasoning

Chapter 11: Causal Explanation

Chapter 12: Moral, Legal, and Aesthetic Reasoning