Reddit reviews Critical Thinking Skills: Developing Effective Analysis and Argument (Palgrave Study Skills)

Current business & finance uni student here, definitely dreading the new timetable I have (with some early 8am lectures) I have to go to in 2 weeks, offering some tips at 4am in the morning-

• Ease into study.
  
  
• When you leave campus for the day, I'd avoid any study work unless it's of content you quite don't understand.
  
  
• If travelling on public transport, if you want to, just do some quick light research on what it is you're not understanding, like things as simple as wikipedia pages.
  
  
• Know where your limit is, in that, if you're at the point of procrastination where everything you need to do is just annoying, don't continue. Break the study up. Be it 5 - 10 minutes. It still counts.
  
  
• If you know you're behind and you've got days off between classes & lectures, go either to the library or even somewhere where you can just hammer out the work that suits your tastes. Only enough that you think is enough to be on par. That may be either on track with what each week's lecture about or what you believe is enough to properly understand the concepts.
  
  
• When studying, what ever helps to get you relaxed, do that in breaks (you choose how long your breaks are though).
  
  
• When you get home, reduce your gaming time if you can (e.g. spend some extra time on off days when you're satisfied you've caught up).
  
  
• Avoid being hungry when studying. Same with being dehydrated.
  
  
• If you feel as if working under pressure does well to help focus, set dates where you'd want to do that before due dates for things like written assessments, study for exams. Add extra days to subjects you feel you're stuck on. It will help to avoid the last tip.
  
  some extra uni tips
  
  
• Check out your uni's student council. See what promotions and deals you can use for things like food
  
• Research at uni is more complex than what it was in highschool.
  
• Feel your research skills may be falling short or feels as if it's not really answering the question? I hope you've got a good study skills handbook. (I'd recommend The Study Skills handbook by S. Cottrell and Critical Thinking Skills: Developing Effective Analysis and Argument). I use both.
  
  
• If you can, if there's people within your tutes you kinda connect with, see if you can catch up with them and ask if they'll hang out for study sessions. Personally for me, these help in understanding ideas and what you have to focus on.
  
  Lastly,
  a couple of cups of coffee and an all-nighter can write up a decent essay or report overnight but it won't help in the long term.
  
  Good luck and just ease into uni with some preparation.

> I want the government and our national security teams to be worried about ISIS.

What makes you believe they aren't taking the domestic threat seriously?

> Your continuing to pretend that maybe this shooter wasn't inspired by Islam and ISIS is hilarious.

Even when I've said repeatedly it's a distinct possibility? There's a dozen different narratives out there, from pundits to self-interested politicians to family members. I have no proof personally so it's too early for me to say.

You mock people for not jumping to conclusions even though not all the facts are available. It's just not a rational way of thinking. I suspect if facts come in that do contradict your preferred take on the world you'll dismiss them. Perhaps I can suggest [a book to help you] (https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Thinking-Skills-Developing-Effective/dp/0230285295).

Best of luck on the road back to rationality.

I think that should be done as a precursor to politics. That way you are in a better position to evaluate the information. It also has a strong link to something that I think is not taught explicitly enough, and that is how science works. We're taught sciences in a way that focuses on how nature works but often overlooks why the scientific method is so important. When people realise that science is simply making sure you test what people say against the real world it helps you to develop a healthy scepticism, where you are not just doubting everything people say but you look for the evidence and their sources.

I was taught a bit of this in history (primary and secondary sources etc.) but I think that it should go much further. I would advise anyone interested in critical thinking to just pick up a book like this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Critical-Thinking-Skills-Developing-Effective/dp/0230285295

Believe me you will never look at politics or adverts in the same way ever again.

You're a fucking idiot for taking the discussion into an irrelevant tangent (theft), putting words in my mouth, and using a strawman tactic (ie, you need to learn to argue your point effectively).

So let's cut out all the bullshit you added to convolute the original point. Quote to me where I said I was okay with theft? The debate was over whether $200 would be missed by most businesses, yeah? You brought up theft, and also doing anything not approved by company management. Your original question was, and I quote:

>I'm curious what brewery you work at where the company is okay with just blowing 200 or so dollars worth of profit so that you all can embarrass a newbie and get free beer. One of the big ones?

Let's see that again:
>I'm curious what brewery you work at where the company is okay with just blowing 200 or so dollars

You establish here that we are assuming that the company approves of this practice in order to embarrass new people.

My response:
>For most businesses, even small ones, $200 is nothing. Chump change.

A direct response indicating why a company might be okay with this practice. And my later point that a company is not going to worry about $200 going missing is not the same as the company being okay with $200 going missing.

Back to your overestimation of a business's concern over a few hundred dollars turning up missing. At some point you are talking about investing more resources into finding the resources that went missing than the original worth of the resources in question - when this is a small amount of money, you are talking literally hours worth of someone's salary before this happens, unless it is a dedicated position such as an LP meant for reducing loss over a long period of time. Unaccounted for loss is a part of doing business, and much of this unaccounted for loss is either stolen or due to erroneous accounting - the difference between the two is irrelevant when it comes to the overall effect on the business. Unless, as I said earlier, the loss becomes a pattern. This is obviously a problem situation that should be dealt with no matter what it is causing it.

Recommended reading for you:
http://www.amazon.com/Critical-Thinking-Skills-Developing-Effective/dp/0230285295