Acquiring Critical Thinking Skills

By Marilyn Meltzer, Susan Palau, Susan Marcus Palau

The first text of its kind for allied health students This new, easy-to-read resource provides specific strategies for applying critical thinking and problem-solving skills to reading, writing, doing maths, and studying. It prepares allied health students to better understand, interpret, apply, and evaluate information from their textbooks and classroom lectures, transforming them into active learners who can more successfully complete their studies and compete in the workplace.
The book's four sections help students to read with greater depth and judgment, write more logically, concisely, and clearly, master the math problems they encounter at school and at work, and use critical thinking to improve test-taking results.Exercises taken from actual allied health texts offer true-to-life practice in reading and working with representative textbook selections.
Reading selections throughout give students experience in applying the critical thinking skills that they have learned.A student journal provides an opportunity to assess, react to, and synthesize information from each chapter.
Examples from real-life allied health settings illustrate complex critical thinking tasks.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0721661513
• ISBN13: 9780721661513
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.5" x 8.8"