This is also the concern of author Lang Minh during more than a decade of teaching the subject "Introduction to Critical Thinking " to students and pupils at universities and high schools across the country.
This was both a preliminary idea and a driving force for him to begin writing the book "Criticizing like an expert: Sharp arguments and effective thinking".
The book's layout "Criticizing like an expert: Sharp arguments and effective thinking" is divided into 6 major parts, deeply analyzing the components that make up arguments - the smallest unit of critical thinking - includes: Claims, arguments and evidence.
In each chapter, the author not only explains the concepts and characteristics of each component or how they relate to each other, but also provides techniques and practical guidance with the goal of helping readers hone their sharp arguments. sharp, towards an effective thinking method.
In addition to the 5 main parts, "Criticizing like an expert" also has an appendix about fallacies in thinking, initially pointing out common fallacies that everyone easily makes.
Commenting on the work, education expert Pham Hiep wrote: "Criticizing like an expert was designed by author Lang Minh as a set of instructional documents, full of theory but not too academic thanks to the system of examples." Rich, specific, mainly quoted from "real combat" works written by himself and his colleagues.
This is probably the most worth watching point in this book. In addition to encouraging general readers to read this book, I also think this is a very suitable work to use as a textbook and reference material for undergraduate and graduate training programs in communications, journalism, public administration, marketing... in particular as well as the entire field of social sciences in general".
In addition to teaching, author Lang Minh is also a familiar social commentary writer in prestigious Vietnamese newspapers. This has helped "Criticize like an expert" to access in a diverse and attractive way many of the rather dry knowledge content of the subject "Critical Thinking".
Throughout the work, readers will see author Lang Minh continuously rotate between three roles: Journalist, teacher and sometimes even a young man who has spent a large part of his life "helping" his neighbor in need. help. Each role is skillfully chosen by him to fit the content he wants to convey.
As a teacher, which is also a strength with more than 10 years of experience, author Lang Minh has chosen to focus on presenting "real-life" knowledge, balancing theory and practice to help readers visualize. about "Critical thinking" as a useful method in life. At the heart of "Reflect Like an Expert" are two "invincible" formulas for all arguments: the CRE argument model and the extended claim formula. From these two endpoints, the author begins to present details about the statement, personal viewpoint in argument, conceptual thinking, deductive and inductive methods...
Evaluating the pedagogy in the book "Criticizing like an expert", Dr. Phung Ha Thanh - lecturer at the University of Foreign Languages, Hanoi National University - wrote: "I see clear pedagogical choices: Choose to evaluate the strength - weakness of the argument rather than right - wrong, choose to focus on argument structure and argument operation rather than a list of common errors, choose to emphasize diversity of perspective, choosing to place arguments in the socio-cultural context".
