Understanding Scientific Reasoning

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Fort Worth, TX, USA: Wadsworth Publishing Company (2006)
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UNDERSTANDING SCIENTIFIC REASONING develops critical reasoning skills and guides students in the improvement of their scientific and technological literacy. The authors teach students how to understand and critically evaluate the scientific information they encounter in both textbooks and the popular media. With its focus on scientific pedagogy, UNDERSTANDING SCIENTIFIC REASONING helps students learn how to examine scientific reports with a reasonable degree of sophistication. The book also explains how to reason through case studies using the same informal logic skills employed by scientists and to analyze a complex series of propositions and hypotheses using sound scientific reasoning.

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015506326X   0155016253   8984103349   0030630681   0030264197   9780155016255   0030446317

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Ronald Giere
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