Thinking for Yourself: Developing Critical Thinking Skills Through Reading and Writing
ISBN: 9781428231443 | 1428231447
Edition: 8thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 4/13/2009
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THINKING FOR YOURSELF: DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS THROUGH READING AND WRITING offers a unique integration of composition, reading, and critical thinking. As you complete the book's writing assignments, you'll see how your writing reflects your thinking and how self-directed improvement in thinking also improves writing. The book offers step-by-step instruction, humor, cartoons, Internet research exercises, and up-to-date social and political examples as a foundation for lifelong improvement in thinking and writing.
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Introduction to Critical Thinking | |
| Learning How You Think | |
| Discovery Exercise | |
| Experiencing How We Actually Think: An Exercise for the Whole Class to Complete Together | |
| Learning from Sharing How We Think | |
| What Is Critical Thinking? Relationship to Creative Thinking | |
| Diagram: Different Functions of Left and Righ... MORE | |
| Why Learn Critical Thinking? The Habits of a Critical Thinker | |
| Box: Habits of a Critical Thinker | |
| Basics of Critical Thinking | |
| Observation Skills: What''s Out There? Discovery Exercises | |
| Comparing Our Perceptions | |
| What Is Observing? Observing a Cube | |
| Observation and Insight | |
| Using Observation Skills to Develop New Knowledge | |
| Reading | |
| Look at Your Fish, by Samuel H. Scudder | |
| Core Discovery Writing Application | |
| Observing the Familiar: Vegetables and Fruit | |
| Evaluating Your Work by Using the Scoring Boxes | |
| Alternate Core Discovery Writing Application | |
| Observing the Unfamiliar: A Tool | |
| The Observation Process: Sensing, Perceiving, Thinking | |
| Barriers to Observation | |
| How Discomfort Leads Us to Think | |
| Diagram: A Choice for Thinking | |
| The Rewards of Skilled Observation | |
| Building Arguments | |
| Observation Skills | |
| Reading | |
| The Innocent Eye | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Chapter Quiz | |
| Composition Writing Application | |
| Survival as a Result of Observing: A Descriptive Narrative Essay | |
| Readings: God Grew Tired of Us | |
| Walking | |
| Spanish Harlem at Night | |
| Word Precision: How Do I Describe It? Discovery Exercise | |
| On Finding the Right Word | |
| Discovery Exercise | |
| Taking an Interest in Dictionaries | |
| How Well Do You Use Your Dictionary? Clear Thinking Depends on Clear Word Definitions | |
| What Makes a Definition? Diagram: Definition Boundaries | |
| Exercise | |
| Word Boundaries | |
| Kinds of Definitions | |
| The Connotations of Words | |
| The Importance of Defining Key Ideas | |
| Word Concepts | |
| Defining Reality | |
| Defining Truth | |
| What Is Critical Reading? Building Arguments | |
| Word Choices | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Chapter Quiz | |
| Composition Writing Application | |
| A Short Essay of Definition | |
| Box: Clustering | |
| Readings | |
| Rankism by Robert W. Fuller, Nerds by David Anderegg, Saved by Malcom X | |
| Advanced Optional Writing Assignment | |
| Facts: What''s Real? Discovery Exercises | |
| Beginning with the Word Fact | |
| Learning to Recognize Facts | |
| Verifying Facts | |
| Facts and Reality | |
| Facts Are Not Absolutes | |
| Distinguishing Facts from Fiction | |
| Feelings Can Be Facts | |
| Facts and Social Pressure | |
| Diagram: Standard and Comparison Lines in the Asch Experiment | |
| Facts and Our Limited Senses | |
| Reading | |
| The Blind Men and the Elephant | |
| Statements of Fact | |
| Core Discovery Writing Application | |
| Using a List of Facts to Describe a Photograph | |
| Standards We Use to Determine Facts | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Chapter Quiz | |
| Composition Writing Application | |
| Writing a Short Fact-Finding Report | |
| Readings: Our Daily Meds by Melody Peterson, Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser | |
| Building Arguments | |
| Advanced Optional Writing Assignment | |
| Inferences: What Follows? Discovery Exercise | |
| Recognizing Inferential Thinking | |
| Defining Infer, Understanding the Words Infer and Inference | |
| Discovery Exercises | |
| Drawing Inferences from Evidence | |
| Drawing Inferences from Facts | |
| Distinguishing Inferences from Facts | |
| How Inferences Can Go Right and Wrong | |
| Reading | |
| The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| Drawing Inferences from Careful Observation | |
| Core Discovery Writing Application | |
| Using Facts and Inferences to Describe a Photograph | |
| Generalizations Are Inferences | |
| Composition Writing Application | |
| Writing a Paragraph from Facts, Inferences, and Generalizations | |
| Core Discovery Writing Application | |
| Analyzing the Use of Facts and Inferences in a Newspaper Article | |
| Reading | |
| Tougher Grading Better for Students | |
| Building Arguments:Inferences | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Chapter Quiz | |
| Readings | |
| Friends by Tim O''Brien, He Fixes Radios by Thinking by Richard P Feynman, The Mistake of the Sand Flea by Paul Krafel | |
| Objectives Review of | |
| PROBLEMS OF CRITICAL | |
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