
THINKING FOR YOURSELF: DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS THROUGH READING AND WRITING offers a unique integration of composition, reading, and critical thinking. As you complete the book's writing assignments, you'll see how your writing reflects your thinking and how self-directed...




Mayfield uses a skills-based approach, treating critical thinking as a skill. This approach involves reading texts, analyzing, exploring, synthesizing, and arguing about ideas. Accomplishing two purposes, this text teaches students to do college level writing and teaches critical...



This continues to be one of the only texts to fully integrate the development of critical thinking skills with the writing process.



