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

By Marlys Mayfield

Book Overview

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 thinking through writing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534203345
• ISBN13: 9780534203344
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: Wadsworth
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 6.7" x 9.4"

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.