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This text is field-tested and designed to help undergraduate students develop competence in reasoning and critical writing. For the first objective, the text focuses how to: identify, and avoid, vagueness and ambiguity; and spot common errors in reasoning. This section also helps students identify, develop, and ascertain the strength of different types of argument: inductive, deductive, analogical, truth-functional, quantificational, causal, etc. For the second objective, the author shows each student step-by-step how to write clearly and accurately, starting with the sentence through the paragraph, to the whole essay.Le, Son M. is the author of 'Elements Of Critical Thinking And Writing', published 2002 under ISBN 9780759315808 and ISBN 0759315809.
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