Kathleen McMillan, Jonathan Weyers

How to Improve your Critical Thinking & Reflective Skills (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This easy-to-use guide identifies and addresses the key areas where most students need help in developing and enhancing the critical thinking and writing skills that are crucial to successful academic study, and provides practical tips and solutions. The authors use real life examples to illustrate common mistakes and demonstrate how to avoid them. They provide solid advice on enhancing analytical and argumentation skills by adopting best practice with critical thinking and reflective writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pearson ITP
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780273773351
• Artikelnr.: 54176877

Autorenporträt

Kathleen McMillan and Jonathan Weyers work within the University of Dundee's Learning Centre and Academic Affairs Office respectively and have each been teaching for over 25 years and now specialize in supporting academic skills across both the arts and sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Key concepts and processes - how thinking, reflection and creativity
involve important skills
Key approaches to thinking
2. Critical thinking - how to develop a logical approach to analysis and
problem-solving
3. Reflective thinking - how to evaluate your feelings in academic contexts
4. Creative thinking - how to generate innovative and original ideas
Critical thinking in practice
5. Arriving at a viewpoint - how to sift fact and opinion to arrive at a
position on a topic
6. Supporting and opposing an argument - how to express your point of view
through discussion and debate
7. Interpreting and manipulating data - how to approach graphs, tables,
formulae and basic statistics
8. Decision-making and work-planning - how to make choices, plan ahead and
prioritise
9. Group effort and collaboration - how to enhance your contribution to
teamwork
Evaluating the ideas of others
10.   Evaluating information sources - how to filter and select reliable
material
11.   Effective academic reading - how to read efficiently and with
understanding
12.   Note-making from texts - how to create effective notes for later
reference
13.   Plagiarism and copyright infringement - how to avoid being accused of
'stealing' the ideas and work of others
14.   Citing and listing references  - how to refer appropriately to the
work of others
Putting your thinking into words
15.   Tackling a writing assignment - how to respond to the specified task
16.   Academic writing style - how to adopt appropriate language
conventions
17.   General writing structures – how to select and shape your content
appropriately
18.   Writing about reflection - how to structure and report your thoughts
19.   Editing and presenting your assignment - how to review your own work
and follow academic conventions
Forward thinking
20.   Exploiting feedback - how to learn from what lecturers think of your
work
21.   Preparing for employment- how to transfer your thinking skills to a
career