Critical Thinking: Learn the Tools the Best Thinkers Use, Concise Edition - Tapa blanda

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DR. RICHARD W. PAUL is Director of Research and Professional Development at the Center for Critical Thinking and the Chair of the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking. He has authored eight books and more than 200 articles on critical thinking. In over 35 years of teaching experience, he has won numerous awards and honors, including Distinguished Perry Lecturer for the year 2000. DR. LINDA ELDER is an educational psychologist, President for the Foundation for Critical Thinking, and Executive Director of the Center for Critical Thinking. She is highly published and has done original research into the relation of thought and emotion. She is a regular keynoter at the International Conference on Critical Thinking and is a recognized leader in the field.

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Like its parent text, Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life, Second Edition, this book focuses on an integrated, universal concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and practical; it provides readers with the basic intellectual skills they need to think through content in any class, subject, or discipline, and through any problems or issues they face.

Written by two of the leading experts in the field, Critical Thinking: Learn the Tools the Best Thinkers Use focuses on the most basic critical thinking concepts.  It includes activities that allow readers to apply these concepts within disciplines and to life.  An added feature to this brief book is a focus on close reading and substantive writing.

Content highlights include:

• Think for Yourself activities
• Discovering the parts of thinking and the standards for thinking
• Learning to formulate clear and substantive questions
• Making the design of a course work for you
• Close reading and substantive writing
• Becoming a fair-minded thinker

The authors' website provides students with valuable resources to enhance their development as thinkers.  Find this at www.criticalthinking.org

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