This text presents a clear and concise explanation of argumentation and provides models for good argumentation, particularly as it applies to academic debate.

This comprehensive introduction to the principles and practice of argumentation and debate uses a clear, concise, and engaging presentation that makes even complex material easy to understand. ARGUMENTATION AND DEBATE features concepts, argumentation models, practical guides, and real-life scenarios that you use to enhance your skills in academic debates. With an emphasis on cr...(展开全部)

路易丝·卡茨，悉尼科技大学创意艺术博士，曾在澳大利亚悉尼科技大学教授创意写作课程和沟通技巧课程，自2009年起就职于悉尼大学，任学术写作与批判性思维课程和学术英语课程讲师。

Critical Thinking for Strategic Analysis is organized around twenty key questions that all analysts should ask as they prepare to conduct research, draft papers, and present their analysis. We divided the twenty questions into four groups, focusing on the four stages of generating an analytic product: 1. How do I get started? 2. Where is the information I need? 3. What is my ar...(展开全部)

First published in 1985, Pollock and After established itself as a widely-read and highly influential collection of key writings on Abstract Expressionism. This revised edition, featuring ten new articles, is fully updated to take account of new critical approaches to post-war American art. Contributors: Anna C. Chave, T J Clark, Eva Cockcroft, David Craven, Michael Fried, An...(展开全部)

More than any other textbook, Moore and Parker's "Critical Thinking" has defined the structure and content of the critical thinking course at colleges and universities across the country - and has done so with a witty writing style that students enjoy. Current examples relevant to today's students bring the concepts of critical thinking to life in vivid detail. This ninth editi...(展开全部)

Neuroeconomics is a new highly promising approach to understanding the neurobiology of decision making and how it affects cognitive social interactions between humans and societies/economies. This book is the first edited reference to examine the science behind neuroeconomics, including how it influences human behavior and societal decision making from a behavioral economics po...(展开全部)

Across disciplines, critical thinking is praised, taught, and put into practice. But what does it actually mean to think critically? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best examines how to evaluate arguments and the evidence used to support them as he hones in on how to think in the field of sociology and beyond. With inimitable style that melds ethnographic verve with dry...(展开全部)