Critical Thinking : A Concise Guide

Tracy Bowell and Gary Kemp
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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.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

治學方法與論文寫作 = An Approach to Academic Studies and Thesis Writing

徐有富 著
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本書旨在培養創新意識與科研能力，共分十講︰怎樣選題、怎樣查資料、怎樣作社會調查、怎樣讀書、怎樣寫讀書筆記、怎樣判斷資料的價值、怎樣鑒別資料的真偽、治學方法舉要、論文寫作方法、治學態度。本書注意用實例分析問題。每講之後均附作業題與思考題，並附錄了一些參考資料，不少參考資料是學生們的作業。書中還附有《參考書目舉要》。注重實用、不尚空談為本書顯著特點。

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Effective Study Skills

Geraldine Price and Pat Maier
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This is a high-quality, rigorous academic skills textbook providing essential guidance to the core areas of practical, aspirational and transferable skills needed by a student both to achieve success on any academic course and to secure improved grades. It will also develop key workplace skills that will enable them to achieve success in their onward career.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

實用思考指南: 批判性思考及創造性思考的訓練 (The Art of Thinking)

芮基洛 (Vincent Ryan Ruggiero) 著
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……在美國的大專院校中，有關批判性思考的課程已被列入必修學分。也由於這些提倡者及其擁護者的堅持與努力，一個新的知識領域開始成形與茁壯。作者便是基於上述思潮撰寫本書，希望能活用讀者的思考能力，同時具有批判能力與創發力。

作者以四個前提來組織本書：
1. 著重做什麼，而不是不該做什麼。
2. 引導讀者了解創造性思考的原則與技巧。
3. 教導讀者批判自己的想法，一如對別人想法的批判。
4. 教導讀者如何說服別人。

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How to Get a Good Degree: Making the Most of Your Time at University

Phil Race
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• How can I ensure my hard work pays off?
• How should I integrate new technologies into my study habits?
• How can I study strategically and avoid going off at a tangent?

Are you motivated to succeed at university but unsure how to achieve your full potential? This book will help to unlock the secrets to getting a good degree and all the benefits that can come from it. A strong degree opens up career choices and enhances earning potential. The world is your oyster! More than anything else, a good degree brings freedom to choose, to change direction, and to follow up exciting options. Whether you go on to further study or not, people will still look at whether your first degree was a good one.

…If you are an undergraduate, this book will help you to reap the rewards for the time and investment you expend while studying for your degree.

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輕鬆自在交朋友 (Making Friends)

安德魯・馬修斯 (Andrew Matthews) 著
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人際關係，是生活中大部分喜怒哀樂的來源。有了友誼，生活就充滿了喜悅。

雖然快樂與否取決於個人的態度，但快樂方程式中卻有一個重要變數--他人。

而本書主要就是在討論「他人」--那些與我們一同歡笑、吃苦、喧鬧、立誓、哭泣、工作、玩耍、辯論、計畫未來的人，那些我們關愛、信賴、容忍、責備，有時卻想要避開的的人。雖然對待不同的人需要採取不同的方式，但是我們仍由衷地盼望能與各階層的人和平相處。

作者基於本身的生活體驗，於本書中提供了一些觀念和策略，希望藉此與讀者分享，並穿插作者自繪的幽默插畫，希望閱讀後能多些歡笑、少些煩惱。

(摘錄自香港書城)