Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide is a much-needed guide to argument analysis
and a clear introduction to thinking clearly and rationally for oneself. Through
precise and accessible discussion this book equips students with the essential
skills required to tell a good argument from a bad one.

Key features of the book are:

* Clear, jargon-free discussion of key concepts in argumentation
* How to avoid common confusions surrounding words such as .truth.,
.knowledge. and .opinion.
* How to identify and evaluate the most common types of argument
* How to spot fallacies in arguments and tell good reasoning from bad
* Chapter summaries, glossaries and useful exercises

This third edition has been revised and updated throughout, with new exercises,
and up-to-date topical examples, including: .real-world. arguments; practical
reasoning; understanding quantitative data, statistics, and the rhetoric used
about them; scientific reasoning; and expanded discussion of conditionals,
ambiguity, vagueness, slippery slope arguments, and arguments by analogy.

The Routledge Critical Thinking companion website, features a wealth of
further resources, including examples and case studies, sample questions,
practice questions and answers, and student activities.

Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide is essential reading for anyone, student
or professional, at work or in the classroom, seeking to improve their
reasoning and arguing skills.

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