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Critical Thinking: Learn The Tools The Best Thinkers Use
Written by two of the leading experts in critical thinking, this book focuses on an integrated, universal concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and applicable to any and every situation in which human thinking is necessary. It provides readerse with the basic intellectual tools needed for life-long learning, helping them understand the mind and how its three functions -- thinking, feeling, motivation -- influence and are influenced by one another. This book fosters the development of fair-minded critical thinking. Features the intellectual standards: clarity, precision, accuracy, logicalness, significance, depth, breadth, and fairness; The importance of good questioning; and intellectual tools to read for deep and lasting comprehension, and to write in ways that show clarity of reasonability of thought. For all that want to improve their critical thinking skills to apply to their job or life.
342 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2005
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January 4, 2015
I’ll write a critical review –
At least that’s what I’m thinking –
’Cause this book’s tone was much too dry
As was the purple inking.
It did discuss some critical
Ideas, such as how
Our instincts sway our reasoning –
I’m thinking on this now.
But still, the book’s critical mass
Consists of lists and charts.
What were the authors thinking?
Did they learn rhetorical arts?
Critical thinking, in this book,
Means, “Just follow these rules
So you can be more like your profs
And less like average fools.”
Of course, my learned friends are right.
They just seem a bit uptight.
At least that’s what I’m thinking –
’Cause this book’s tone was much too dry
As was the purple inking.
It did discuss some critical
Ideas, such as how
Our instincts sway our reasoning –
I’m thinking on this now.
But still, the book’s critical mass
Consists of lists and charts.
What were the authors thinking?
Did they learn rhetorical arts?
Critical thinking, in this book,
Means, “Just follow these rules
So you can be more like your profs
And less like average fools.”
Of course, my learned friends are right.
They just seem a bit uptight.
February 16, 2017
This book is a text for a critical thinking course I am taking. The book is dreadful. It is extremely redundant, often unclear, and inaccurate. It recommends eight intellectual standards and doesn't meet them itself. It uses examples for concepts but they don't exemplify the concept.
It pains me to have to read this book.
It pains me to have to read this book.
August 8, 2013
Again, I don't really know what to rate this book...primarily because it's the first self-help book I've ever even cracked.
Yes, that's correct. This is, as I see it, not a textbook, but a touchy-feely, sweetness-and-light, self-love-fest.
Enjoy, fellow academics.
PS: The degree of repetition in this thing would offend a kindergartener. The didacticism is just that excessive.
Yes, that's correct. This is, as I see it, not a textbook, but a touchy-feely, sweetness-and-light, self-love-fest.
Enjoy, fellow academics.
PS: The degree of repetition in this thing would offend a kindergartener. The didacticism is just that excessive.
May 9, 2012
One of the textbooks for my Philosophy of Ethics course.
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