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Needed for School.......2007-06-28
Good information, it was purchased for school but I enjoyed the concepts. It is something everyone should read.
Learning to Think Things Through: A Guide to Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum .......2007-03-09
Although the topics discussed in this book initially seemed a bit convoluted or wordy to me, upon second review it was a worthwhile read. I have found that appreciating the labor and reflection involved in critical thinking is much like acquiring a taste for some strange food or drink you didn't like as a child, but then as one matures so do their tastebuds and expectations. "Learning to Think Things Through" was a good way to break myself into the subject of critical thinking. Again it came across as a bit overstated and even technical at first, but then after re-reading some portions, I found it to be a very good starting place.
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Dont Pass this up! Get A's in Fundamentals!!!.......2007-08-31
This book was a lifesaver! Many of my test questions were identical or similar! The rationales help you understand why a answer is right or wrong! I went from B's to A's with this book. Definitely the best investment worth every penny. HIGHLY recommended!
Fundamentals success.......2007-08-09
Book arrived in perfect condition! Very pleased. I bought this book because it was required for nursing school.
Great!.......2007-01-09
A must have for beginning nursing students. Not only does it cover every subject of fundamentals of nursing, but it also teaches NCLEX style test strategies. Tons of questions and rationales,great practice. Our Profs. took lots of questions from this book for their tests............
A MUST have for first year nursing students!.......2006-10-26
If you are a first year student do not spend another minute without this book! In order to do well you MUST be familiar with the style of questions and the rationals for both right and wrong answers. This book has it all! Each chapter focuses on a different subject (Hygeine, Asepsis, Law and Ethics, Safety, Mobility, Nursing Process, Etc...) and there are approximately 50 questions each chapter. GET THIS BOOK!
I'm asking you to refund this order due to delay for 1 month.......2005-09-23
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Book Description
Enhanced by many innovative exercises, examples, and pedagogical features, The Power of Critical Thinking: Effective Reasoning About Ordinary and Extraordinary Claims, Second Edition, explores the essentials of critical reasoning, argumentation, logic, and argumentative essay writing while also incorporating material on important topics that most other texts leave out. Author Lewis Vaughn offers comprehensive treatments of core topics, including an introduction to claims and arguments, discussions of propositional and categorical logic, and full coverage of the basics of inductive reasoning. Building on this solid foundation, he also delves into areas neglected by other texts, adding extensive material on "inference to the best explanation" and on scientific reasoning; a thorough look at the evaluation of evidence and credibility; and a chapter on the psychological and social factors that can impede critical thinking. Additional notable elements are a chapter on moral reasoning, advice on how to evaluate Internet sources, and guidelines for evaluating occult, paranormal, or supernatural claims. The Power of Critical Thinking, Second Edition, integrates many pedagogical features including hundreds of diverse exercises, examples, and illustrations; progressive, stand-alone writing modules; numerous text boxes; step-by-step guidelines for evaluating claims, arguments, and explanations; a glossary of important terms; and many reminders, summaries, and review notes throughout. The text is supplemented by a companion website at www.oup.com/us/criticalthinking (offering a student study guide and more), and an Instructor's Manual with Test Questions (available both in print and on a CD). This unique text features a modular structure that allows instructors to teach the chapters in almost any order. Written in a student-friendly style and enhanced by humor where appropriate, it is ideal for courses in critical thinking, introduction to logic, informal logic, argumentative writing, and introduction to argumentation. New to the Second Edition * Full-color throughout and an expanded art program (37 more photos and illustrations) * A new writing module--an annotated sample student paper--and five additional essays for analysis * A new section on evaluating news reports and advertising * Timely discussions of intelligent design and population (nonintervention) studies * Expanded coverage of experts and authors and reasons to doubt their reliability * More "Field Problems" and exercise questions * Chapter objectives and key terms with definitions for each chapter
Customer Reviews:
Save Money.......2007-05-12
I used this book for class up to Chapter 11, and it wasn't bad. There were lots of excerises, but there were only answers for 5/20 you do in the back of the book. its a good deal to buy from amazon because i bought it used and it worked great for me, i saved a little less than 75$ compare to buying it at the bookstore. So overall, this book is easy to understand and is better used for understanding concepts and definitions but not for excerises that practice what you learn in the chapters.
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- fun team challenges
- A wide variety of great ideas.
- 3 activities with 1001 variations
- From the Creativity Editor at BellaOnline.com
- Must have! Wish I'd had it years ago!
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Team Challenges: 170+ Group Activities to Build Cooperation, Communication, and Creativity
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Book Description
Team Challenges promotes effective communication skills and teamwork. Designed to offer teachers, facilitators, and parents a wide variety of activities to cultivate children's problem-solving skills while fostering cooperation between group members, the activities in the book utilize common household items and recycled materials, and require no more than 10 minutes, start to finish. Presented with a challenge from this book, kids work cooperatively to solve open ended problems which can incorporate structure building, improvisation skills and physical tasks. The challenges will teach children to experiment with building methods, discover new uses for everyday items, try on new personas, and express themselves as they work together toward a successful solution. Team members are required to think outside the box, communicate clearly, and cooperate with each other in order to complete each task.
Activities include building structures from materials such as index cards, drinking straws, paper clips and sticky dots; moving items from one location to another without directly touching them; or presenting a skit portraying their solution to a hypothetical dilemma. Children will learn not only from each other, but also from observing how other teams navigate each task.
Pass some creative problem solving skills on to the kids (and adults!) in your life with the fun activities you'll find in Team Challenges. Adults who work with children will find this to be a great addition to their repertoire.
Ever found yourself with five extra minutes to spare, but nothing to discuss in that short amount of time? Turn to Chapter Five, and you'll find questions such as these:
*Name things that you carry on your back (a backpack, a baby, a monkey)
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*List things that are printed (newspapers, the alphabet, T-shirts)
Need a simple activity to occupy the kids and encourage them to work cooperatively? Challenge them to one of the Tiny Tasks, found in Chapter Four:
*Build a structure as tall as possible using 5 marshmallows and 10 drinking straws
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More detailed challenges are found in subsequent chapters.
Customer Reviews:
fun team challenges.......2007-08-14
I am a Destination Imagination team manager who is looking forward to getting my kids working on these team challenges. There are a variety of challenges in this book that are easy to prepare and set up for but they look fun, interesting and challenging. They are sure to make my kids brains work! Book contains good tips too!
A wide variety of great ideas. .......2006-12-16
This book offers all kinds of great activities that will help foster cooperation, communication and creativity within whatever group of people you're using it for. The tasks range from mental activities to physical ones and are easy to understand, fun to execute and can be completed with objects that you usually have around the house. The book is a great tool for your own children, birthday parties, classrooms and it's also a perfect teacher gift!
3 activities with 1001 variations.......2006-11-23
Essentially, this is a book for people with little-to-no experience with group games or team building. All of the activities listed were ones I already knew, and the large number in the title comes from the number of variations for each of 3 activities: building things out of everyday items (see how high you can build a tower with the given items), common physical challenges (get the group from one side of the room to another using various props), and improv/word games. If you have a small imagination and very limited knowlegde of common team building activities, you might like this book, but if you're already in the field and looking for a book of new ideas, keep on looking. This isn't it.
From the Creativity Editor at BellaOnline.com.......2006-05-11
Team Challenges is a resource book packed with ideas and activities for encouraging and developing children?s creativity, lateral thinking, and communication skills.
It's easy to see how these challenges could help to develop a child's confidence as well as exposing children to career and skill development options. Solutions are not necessarily guaranteed and children can be encouraged to continue thinking a problem through when the time is up and to present further ideas later, or even try the task again.
The challenges in this book emphasise creative and imaginative thinking and I'm very impressed with the author's ideas.
Must have! Wish I'd had it years ago!.......2005-12-21
We're a homeschooling family, and have started using this book in our co-op. It's so amazing to watch the idea of "team" unfold as we go along. This book is fantastic, so well organized and well written, and full of so many different ideas, you're bound to find something unique that works for every personality. We've participated in Oddessey of the Mind in the past, and I think this book should be on every group leader's book shelf. If you like helping kids and adults learn to work together, this book will take you to new levels of cooperation, and will likely teach you more about yourself than you ever thought possible.
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Great ideas, great resource.......2007-05-13
I'd read Michael Strong's "Habit of Thought" book, and was looking for more help in bringing socratic learning methods into my classes at my university. Despite coming from a high school english literature context, I found this book enormously helpful. I've been using the ideas in my graduate computer science class for over a month, with adaptations (e.g., using long research articles), and it has been very successful. The rubrics and forms included with the book are excellent as well. My students have become much better discussants and seem to be really enjoying the experience.
Helping the lower end catch up . . ........2006-09-14
I read this book over the summer on a whim and really enjoyed Matt's writing, his suggestions, and his format for socratic seminars. I have been to training on socratic seminars, but this book helped me more than anything. He gives you little steps to take on your way to a full blown successful seminar. His ideas help get your kids asking questions, discussing, thinking, and writing at a higher level. My discussions have improved in class, and even the kids who usually don't participate have gotten involved in discussing and sharing their thoughts.
Book Description
Describes a process and tools to help business people understand how to use logic to break a problem apart for problem solving to ensure there are no gaps in the analysis and no unnecessary tasks undertaken. It also shows how to use logic to synthesize data into an overall "so what" so that decision makers quickly grasp recommendations and conclusions in a way that is persuasive and easy to understand.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Practical Guide to Using Logic in Communications.......2007-04-16
This book takes some classic logic constructs and helps the reader understand how to apply them successfully to communications. If you are looking for help in convincing someone of your point of view - in business and in your personal life - this book is for you. Great examples that really illustrate how to apply these frameworks. Very helpful - really made an impact on my communications.
Helps one visually structure sound and logical arguments.......2007-03-02
In this book, Dr. Long provides readers effective methods and tools to develop their ability to structure logical arguments. The approach is simple and can easily be adapted to any context in which the reader is expected to conceptualize, formulate, articulate, and communicate thoughts in a logical and convincing manner. I first started using the book during one of Dr. Long's workshops and have referred to it frequently ever since. The book is an excellent reference for those who want to improve the way they think and the way they communicate with others - whether this is at work or in their personal lives.
An excellent, useful book.......2007-02-28
This is without doubt one of the best, and most useful books I have read (and I have read many!) on the use of logic in business presentations. The book outlines a great process for structuring problems and synthesizing
complex information into a easy-to-understand story for decision makers. Linda Long is a great writer and teacher, and anyone who wants to improve their logical problem solving shoudl buy and use this book - I absolutely recommend it.
strong framework.......2007-02-27
This book provides a strong framework for building arguments. It also provides a helpful structure for disecting the process of researching a problem and then writing the solution. The book is easy to follow and helps the reader to develop an argument in a logical and powerful way.
Do not waste your money.......2007-02-14
There is nothing new to her book in the Communications field and her examples are not at all helpful for classroom discussions.
Book Description
Presents a series of logic and reasoning problems to help the reader to prepare for an important exam, improve reasoning skills for work or school, and hone the readers mind.
Customer Reviews:
The puzzle book........2001-10-20
In a nutshell, this book is a watered down version of GRE/GMAT/LSAT/SAT tests. The book is not a useful tool for helping one to prepare or get more experience on taking such tests; go elsewhere for that. The book is a good resource for junior-high/high-school students who want to start or improve their thinking skills. The few drawbacks are: (a) the book really should have 4x the number of problems (b) The more challenging sections should give a step by step example on how to solve the particular type of problem.
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One-Hour Mysteries offers five motivating mysteries that your students can solve using clues and logical reasoning. Your students become "crime scene investigators," analyzing clues found at a crime scene and applying forensic techniques in their analysis.
Each mystery includes a complete set of teacher instructions and blackline masters that may be photocopied for classroom use. This exciting book features the following mysteries: Mystery at the Mall, The Coaster Caper, The Case of Santa's Blackmail, The Case of the Missing Tiara, and A Hollywood Crime.
What better way to motivate critical thinking than with a whodunit? Skills include deductive reasoning, inferring, taking notes, organizing data, and analyzing evidence.
Get ready for real thinking combined with cloak-and-dagger fun!
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By learning the critical thinking strategies outlined within this book, you will make effective decisions based on careful evaluation, develop the best solutions to problems, identify key issues without getting sidetracked, and use critical thinking to write and speak with impact. It's easy to fall into “thinking traps” such as emotional manipulation, deceptive reasoning and lazy thinking. This book will teach you how to identify and avoid these traps, and how to deal with them when you encounter them within yourself or your organization. You will also be introduced to different styles of critical thinking, and how each works to deepen your understanding of the facts and information you have.
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