Critical Thinking by Richard Paul And Linda Elde

Critical Thinking : Learn The Tools The Best Thinkers Use, Concise
Richard Paul And Linda Elde
ISBN13: 978-0131703476
ISBN10: 0131703471

Summary: For Student Success and Career Development, or Critical Thinking courses.

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 students with the basic intellectual tools needed for life-long learning, helping them understand the mind and how its three functions ...show more

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).
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.

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Edition/Copyright: 06
Cover: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall, Inc.
Published: 07/13/2005
International: No