Critical Thinking

📖 The Scoop

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

Genre: Education / Administration / General (fancy, right?)