Thinking for Yourself: Developing Critical Thinking Skills Through Reading and Writing

by Marlys Mayfield

Book Overview

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 improvement in thinking also improves writing. The book offers step-by-step nstruction, humor, cartoons, Internet research exercises, and up-to-date social and political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 141301772X
• ISBN13: 9781413017724
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Cengage Heinle
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The Operative Word is "developing" Thinking Skills

An excellent book that covers such diverse subjects as critical thinking, observation skills, word usage, communication, facts and reality, inferences, assumptions, opinions, viewpoints, arguments, fallacies, inductive and deductive reasoning, research skills and problem solving. And within each subject is a very well defined and easily understood definition of that subject along with examples of each. The chapter quiz found at the end of each chapter helps to ingrain and reinforce the lesson. The book is insightful and well written. Done with great skill as one is actually able to understand the premise and meaning of each topic/lesson.