Bibliograph

Reasoning skills success in 20 minutes a day

Type

Label

Reasoning skills success in 20 minutes a day

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Reasoning skills success in 20 minutes a day

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

LearningExpress skill builders

Summary

Many standardized tests and career paths require the ability to reason thoroughly and efficiently. Newly revised and updated, this e-book provides tested techniques for developing this highly regarded ability. Written for an audience that encompasses everyone from students to full-time employees, the guide highlights the specific techniques of thinking clearly and logically in an easy 20-step program. Each step takes just 20 minutes a day. Pretest and posttest pinpoint strengths and weaknesses and show your progress. Hundreds of exercises in test format help you acquire or refresh essential reasoning skills. There are lists of additional resources and tips for preparing for important standardized tests

Table Of Contents

Critical thinking and reasoning skills -- Problem-solving strategies -- Thinking vs. knowing -- Who makes the claim? -- Partial claims and half-truths -- What's in a word? -- Working with arguments -- Evaluating evidence -- Recognizing a good argument -- Putting it all together -- Logical fallacies: appeals to emotion -- Logical fallacies: the impostors -- Logical fallacies: distracters and distorters -- Why did it happen? -- Inductive reasoning: Part I -- Jumping to conclusions -- Inductive reasoning: Part II -- Numbers never lie -- Problem solving revisited -- Putting it all together -- Posttest -- Appendix: how to prepare for a test

Target audience

general

Contributor