Smart thinking
Skills for critical understanding and writing, Second Edition - Re-issue
A practical, step-by-step guide to improving skills in analysis, critical thinking, and the effective communication of arguments and explanations. The text treats reasoning as an aspect of communication, not an abstract exercise in logic. The book not only provides detailed advice on how to practice better analytical skills, but also demonstrates how these skills can be used in research and writing. In particular, it emphases how to develop arguments that are coherent and that take account of their audience and context.Second edition published 2004 (ISBN 9780195517330). Reissue published 2012.
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