Critical Thinking - Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life (Paul Richard)(Paperback / softback)

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 readers 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
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