Description:
For Freshman Orientation or Critical Thinking courses as well as a supplementary text for use in any subject-matter at any educational level.
This concise, effective guide is designed to help students learn to think critically in any subject-matter.
A combination of instruction and exercises shows them how to use critical thinking to become active learners rather than passive recipients of information, to more fully appreciate the power of the discipline they are studying, to see its connections to other fields and to their day-to-day lives, and to maintain an overview of the field so they can see the parts in terms of the whole. The model of critical thinking (used throughout the book) is in terms of the elements of reasoning, standards, and critical thinking processes. This model is well-suited to thinking through any problem or question. The 4th Edition reflects streamlined writing, with changes and substantial edits on virtually every page.
Review Quotes: "This text stacks op very well against its competition because it is concise. The difficulty in choosing texts on critical thinking is that they are either too complicated, do not offer enough coverage, or use a particular discipline to explicate critical thinking. What makes this text effective is that it is easy to work with and applicable to any and all disciplines."
- Susan Quarrell, Lehman College