Critical thinking skills : developing effective analysis and argument / Stella Cottrell

1. What is critical thinking?
2. How well do you think? : develop your thinking skills
3. What's their point? : identifying arguments
4. Is it an argument? : argument and non-argument
5. How well do they say it? : clarity, consistency and structure
6. Reading between the lines : recognising underlying assumptions and implicit arguments
7. Does it add up? : identifying flaws in the argument
8. Where's the proof? : finding and evaluating sources of evidence
9. Critical reading and note-making: critical selection, interpretation and noting of source material
10. Critical, analytical writing : critical thinking when writing
11. Where's the analysis? : evaluating critical writing
12. Critical reflection
Texts for activities in chapters 8, 9 and 11
Practice activities on longer texts
Appendix: selected search engines and databases for on-line literature searches.
Includes bibliographical references and index