Critical Thinking: Building the Basics

By Timothy L. Walter, Donald E.P. Smith, Glenn M. Knudsvig

This text is a guide to critical thinking and composition courses. It covers just the basics of critical thinking using an acronym called TCDR (Topic, Class, Description, Relevance). The text grounds the student in the basics of the technique and uses exercises to drive lessons home. It also shows students how to use critical thinking across the curriculum. This book has been field tested by over 1,000 students in a variety of schools, including the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 053419284X
• ISBN13: 9780534192846
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 85 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 6.3" x 0.5"

Customer Reviews

Critical Thinking Made Accessible

This book is short, but has high impact on the students. I used it in my college level Critical Thinking course. The greatest feature of the book is that it uses samples from actual text books across the university curriculum. The simple technique of identifying topic, class, relevance and description of a body of information provides an excellent framework for a beginning critical thinker. I used the text in a 12 day /complete semester course and had some excellent teaching-learning moments in the classroom working with the material.An excellent buy.