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Critical Thinking

Learn the Tools the Best Thinkers Use
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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 activities Discovering the parts of thinking and the standards for thinking Learning to formulate clear and substantive questions Making the design of a course work for you Close reading and substantive writing Becoming a fairminded thinker
Introduction: A Start-up Definition of Critical Thinking. 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?" Glossary
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