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For Student Success and Career Development, or Critical Thinking
courses. Written by two of the leading experts in the field, this
book's approach to critical thinking is as a process for taking
charge of and responsibility for one's thinking. Based in theory
developed over the last 30 years, it focuses on an integrated,
comprehensive concept of critical thinking that is both substantive
and practical; it fosters the development of basic intellectual
skills students need to think through content in any class,
subject, or discipline, as well as through any problem or issue
they face. Simply stated, this text offers students the
intellectual tools they need for lifelong learning, and rational,
conscientious living. In this edition, several advanced chapters
were eliminated, many diagrams have been added or enhanced, and the
glossary of critical thinking terms has been more strongly
developed. TECHNOLOGY OFFERING: MyStudentSuccessLab is available
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Time Management module
Writing is essential to learning. One cannot be educated and yet
unable to communicate one's ideas in written form. But, learning to
write can occur only through a process of cultivation requiring
intellectual discipline. As with any set of complex skills, there
are fundamentals of writing that must be internalized and then
applied using one's thinking. This guide focuses on the most
important of those fundamentals.
The quality of our lives is determined by the quality of our
thinking. The quality of our thinking, in turn, is determined by
the quality of our questions, for questions are the engine, the
driving force behind thinking. Without questions, we have nothing
to think about. Without essential questions, we often fail to focus
our thinking on the significant and substantive. When we ask
essential questions, we deal with what is necessary, relevant, and
indispensable to a matter at hand. We recognize what is at the
heart of the matter. Our thinking is grounded and disciplined. We
are ready to learn. We are intellectually able to find our way
about. To be successful in life, one needs to ask essential
questions: essential questions when reading, writing, and speaking;
when shopping, working, and parenting; when forming friendships,
choosing life-partners, and interacting with the mass media and the
Internet. Yet few people are masters of the art of asking essential
questions. Most have never thought about why some questions are
crucial and others peripheral. Essential questions are rarely
studied in school. They are rarely modeled at home. Most people
question according to their psychological associations. Their
questions are haphazard and scattered. The ideas we provide are
useful only to the extent that they are employed daily to ask
essential questions. Practice in asking essential questions
eventually leads to the habit of asking essential questions. But we
can never practice asking essential questions if we have no
conception of them. This mini-guide is a starting place for
understanding concepts that, when applied, lead to essential
questions. We introduce essential questions as indispensable
intellectual tools. We focus on principles essential to
formulating, analyzing, assessing, and settling primary questions.
You will notice that our categories of question types are not
exclusive. There is a great deal of overlap
Current edition description 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. The text
features: Think for Yourself activities - throughout each chapter.
(Ex. pp 29, 127). ~Help students take ownership of basic concepts
as they learn them. Practical and learnable format. ~Simplifies
complex ideas to make learning easier for students. Focus on
thinking across the disciplines. (Ex. pp 119-120). ~Helps students
to think within the various disciplines, rather than memorizing
facts. Students are taught to learn to think like an historian,
like a scientist, like a psychologist, etc. Critical thinking focus
- When students internalize intellectual standards - such as
clarity, precision, accuracy, logicalness, significance, depth,
breadth, and fairness - they use them on a daily basis to upgrade
their thinking, and to assess the thinking of others. (Ex. 12,
152). ~Gives students intellectual standards they can use in every
dimension of their thinking. Features intellectual tools to read
for deep and lasting comprehension, and to write in ways that show
clarity of reasonability of thought. (Ex. 133). ~Teaches students
to read closely and write substantively. Good questions are the key
to good thinking - Thinkers who know how to ask relevant questions
in context are better able to think their way through complex
issues. (Ex. pp 83, 87, 93). ~Teaches students to ask the questions
the best thinkers ask. Website - www.criticalthinking.org. ~Links
students to the world's largest and most prestigious critical
thinking website and provides forums for student and faculty
discussions. International approach - with translations into
German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and Malay.
~Provides students with the opportunity to read portions of the
text in their native language. "This book is well-written, lucid
and contains abundant examples and applications that not only
enliven the subject matter but present relevant contexts for
building understanding and advanced critical thinking. In addition,
it is faithful to the complexity and work required to improve one's
thinking. It does not soft-pedal the challenge but actually throws
down the gauntlet to the worthy Reader to pick it up." --Stephen J.
Knopp, Ph.D., Ohio University "This concise version is a more
comprehensive and robust textbook. Many Critical Thinking books
cover thinking from a narrow angle, but Paul and Elder offer a
model of critical thinking that can be applied not only to academic
disciplines but also to life in general." --Connie Wolfe, Surry
Community College
Today's instantaneous and ever-present news stream frequently
presents a sensationalized or otherwise distorted view of the
world, demanding constant critical engagement on the part of
everyday citizens. The Critical Thinker's Guide to Bias, Lies, and
Politics in the News reveals the power of critical thinking to make
sense of overwhelming and often subjective media by detecting
ideology, slant, and spin at work. Building off the Richard Paul
and Linda Elder framework for critical thinking, Elder focuses on
the internal logic of the news as well as societal influences on
the media while illustrating essential elements of trustworthy
journalism. With up-to-date discussions of social media, digital
journalism, and political maneuvering inside and outside the fourth
estate, Fact or Fake is an essential handbook for those who want to
stay informed but not influenced by our modern news reporting
systems.
This powerful book introduces core critical thinking concepts and
principles as an empowering problem-solving framework for every
profession, course of study, and indeed every area of life. The
Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools distills
the groundbreaking work of Richard Paul and Linda Elder, targeting
how to deconstruct thinking through the elements of reasoning and
how to assess the quality of our thinking. The eighth edition of
this guide further details the foundations of critical thinking and
how they can be applied in instruction to improve teaching and
learning at all levels; it also reveals how we can learn to
identify and avoid egocentric and sociocentric thought, which lead
to close-mindedness, self-deception, arrogance, hypocrisy, greed,
selfishness, herd mentality, prejudice, and the like. With more
than half a million copies sold, Richard Paul and Linda Elder's
bestselling book in the Thinker's Guide Library is used in
secondary and higher education courses and professional development
seminars across the globe. In a world of conflicting information
and clashing ideologies, this guide clears a path for advancing
fairminded critical societies.
Throughout history, thinkers within every part of society have been
crippled by an ingrained bias toward their own views and the views
of their preferred social groups. As these dangerous egocentric and
sociocentric tendencies continue to pose the greatest threat to the
advancement of rational societies, Liberating the Mind reveals a
way forward. Dissecting the core of how humans naturally learn,
think, and choose to act, internationally recognized critical
thinking leader Linda Elder illuminates root causes of
dysfunctional thought and shows us how to free ourselves from both
selfishness and groupthink through explicit tools of rationality.
This instant intellectual classic offers a cohesive, integrated
theory of mind that takes into account pathological tendencies
shared by all humans, while offering a clear path toward the
cultivation of fairminded critical thinking throughout the world.
Elder illuminates how, by taking the intrinsic problems in our
thinking seriously, we can follow the example of Socrates and live
the examined life, even in times of upheaval and doubt.
Throughout history, thinkers from every part of society have been
crippled by the notion that a person's own views and the views of
the groups with which that person associates are supremely and
exclusively right. Hand in hand, these dangerous tendencies pose
the greatest threat to any progress towards rational society.
Critical thinking leader Linda Elder reveals sociocentric and
egocentric thinking as foundational obstacles to thinking.
Dissecting the very core of how humans learn, think, and chose to
act, The Liberated Mind shows us how to free ourselves from
dysfunctional patterns and achieve truly rational thought. This
instant intellectual classic points towards the salvation of human
reason. Through the cultivation of critical societies, we can
follow the example of Socrates and live the examined life, even in
times of upheaval and doubt.
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