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Critical Thinking
Learn the Tools the Best Thinkers Use
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Critical Thinking
Learn the Tools the Best Thinkers Use
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Description
This introduction to critical thinking focuses on an integrated, universal concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and practical. It provides students with the basic intellectual skills they need to think through content in any class, subject, or discipline, and through any problems or issues they face.
Now available from Rowman & Littlefield, Richard Paul and Linda Elder's Critical Thinking: Learn the Tools the Best Thinkers Use focuses on the most basic critical thinking concepts. It includes activities that allow readers to apply these concepts within disciplines and to life. An added feature to this brief book is a focus on close reading and substantive writing.
Content highlights include:
Think for Yourself activitiesDiscovering the parts of thinking and the standards for thinkingLearning to formulate clear and substantive questionsMaking the design of a course work for youClose reading and substantive writingBecoming a fairminded thinker
Table of Contents
1. How the Mind Can Discover Itself
2. Discover The Parts of Thinking
3. Discover Universal Standards for Thinking
4. Redefining Grades as Levels of Thinking and Learning
5. Learn to Ask the Questions the Best Thinkers Ask
6. Discover How the Best Thinkers Learn
7. Learn How to Read Closely and Write Substantively
Part I: Discover Close Reading
Part II: Discover Substantive Writing
Part III: Practice Close Reading and Substantive Writing
8. Become a Fairminded Thinker
9. Deal with Your Irrational Mind
Part I: The Best Thinkers Take Charge of Their Egocentric Nature
Part II: The Best Thinkers Take Charge of Their Sociocentric Thinking
10. The Stages of Critical Thinking Development: At What Stage Are You?
Appendix A: Further Exercises in Close Reading and Substantive Writing
Appendix B: Sample Analyses of “The Logic of . . .”
Appendix C: What We Mean By “The Best Thinkers?”
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Product details
| Published | Mar 15 2020 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 370 |
| ISBN | 9798765194164 |
| Imprint | The Foundation for Critical Thinking |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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