Critical Thinking Consider Verdict: Consider the Verdict / Bruce N. Waller. - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0137443684 ISBN 13: 9780137443680

Publisher: Pearson Education (US), 1997

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Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict shows students how to take critical thinking skills from the jury room and apply them in the voting booth and the citizens' forum, and from the shopping mall to the boardroom. This new Third Edition of Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict has been enlivened and updated with a wealth of fascinating new exercises from recent trials and Supreme Court decisions, from political campaigns and social debates. In addition, there is a new section on distinguishing legitimate from fallacious appeals to authority, expanded discussion of the proper role and function of the jury, and extensive new exercises on arguments from analogy.

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With emphasis on developing the careful critical thinking skills required to be a fair and effective juror, the author examines the fine and not-so-fine points of jury deliberation. He then shows students how to apply the same critical thinking skills in the voting booth and the citizens' forum, and from the shopping mall to the boardroom. A new ch

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