Bruce N. Waller

Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict, Books a La Carte Edition (6th Edition) Bruce N. Waller 6. izdevums

Integrating Logic Skills into the Critical Decision-Making Process

Organized around lively and authentic examples drawn from jury trials, contemporary political and social debate, and advertising, Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict shows students how to detect fallacies and how to examine and construct cogent arguments. 

Accessible and reader friendly?yet thorough and rigorous?Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict shows students how to integrate all logic skills into the critical decision-making process, and construct arguments from examples gained through the study of contemporary and historic debates, both legal and popular.

This Books á la Carte Edition is an unbound, three-hole punched, loose-leaf version of the textbook and provides students the opportunity to personalize their book by incorporating their own notes and taking only the portion of the book they need to class ? all at a fraction of the bound book price.

Teaching and Learning Experience

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Improve Critical Thinking - ?Argue Your Case? segments, ?Consider the Verdict? boxes, real-life examples and cases, and an optional chapter on ?Thinking Critically about Statistics? all encourage students to examine their assumptions, discern hidden values, evaluate evidence, assess their conclusions, and more!

Engage Students - Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict?s readable, conversational style, wealth of exercises, suggested Website resources, glossary (and more!) allows your students to easily read, understand and engage with the text.

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, instructors find it easy to teach from Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict because students are given an argument context that orients them to new material and helps them place it in a familiar setting ? giving you the freedom to present different, complimentary material in class!

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