How to Think
eBook - ePub

How to Think

Your Essential Guide to Clear, Critical Thought

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

How to Think

Your Essential Guide to Clear, Critical Thought

About this book

This is a book about thinking. Engaging and down-to-earth, it captures the habits and practices that are fundamental to clear thinking and effective study.

In his warm and friendly style, Tom Chatfield shows you how to: 

  • Identify and examine your biases
  • Engage in lively, curious skepticism
  • See the value in emotion and use rhetoric persuasively
  • Know when to say ?I don?t know?
  • Construct reasoned arguments and explanations
  • Think critically about how you engage with technology. 

Short and punchy, the book views critical thinking as a skill to be continually practiced and developed. It equips you with a toolkit for clearer thinking, describing ten key concepts that help you to apply what you have learned. Including regular reflective exercises, key concepts, further readings, each chapter also offers recommendations for how to put the ideas it discusses into practice.

This book is for undergraduate students and anyone looking to understand the core ideas behind critical thinking. Celebrating both self-reflection and collaboration, this book empowers you to pause, think twice and, above all, think well.

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Information

Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781529727418
9781529727425
eBook ISBN
9781529758801

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Thanks and acknowledgements
  8. Meet the author
  9. How to use this book
  10. 0 Introduction: Thinking about thinking
  11. 1 Attention and reflection: Building habits for better thinking
  12. 2 Working with words: Close reading and clear writing
  13. 3 The importance of assumptions: Examining what has been left unsaid
  14. 4 Giving good reasons: The importance of arguing your case
  15. 5 Seeking good explanations: Investigating the reasons behind things
  16. 6 Creative and collaborative thinking: Finding a process that works
  17. 7 Thinking about numbers: How not to lie with statistics
  18. 8 Technology and complexity: The 21st-century context
  19. And finally…
  20. A toolkit for clearer thinking: Ten key concepts

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