Like its parent text, Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life, Second Edition, this book focuses on an integrated, universal concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and practical; it provides readers 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.
Written by two of the leading experts in the field, 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 fair-minded thinker
Chapter 1 How the mind can discover itself
Chapter 2 Discover the parts of Thinking
Chapter 3 Discover Universal Standards for thinking
Chapter 4 Redefine gradws as levels of thinking and learning
Chapter 5 Learn to ask the Questions the best thinkers ask
Chapter 6 Discover how the best thinkers learn
Chapter 7 The best thinkers read closely and write substantively
Chapter 8 Become a fair-Minded thinker
Chapter 9 Deal with your irrational mind
Chapter 10 The Stages of critical thinking development: At what stage are you?