Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 1995

Publication Title

APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy

Volume

94

Issue

2

First Page

114

Last Page

116

Abstract

For those of us who teach critical reasoning, our task of presenting its tools in an interesting way has been facilitated by a number of relatively easy to understand textbooks that include "fragments" of political, social, and economic issues of our day (albeit sometimes contrived and artificial as well as a chapter or two on the analysis of extended arguments, such as those found in essays, editorials, and letters to newspaper and magazine editors. Generally speaking, authors of these texts have made a concerted effort to arouse students' interest in learning critical thinking skills by inserting issues and reasoning situations into their texts that are more like those that student$ confront in the world.

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