Becoming a Critical Thinker - Softcover

Ruggiero, Vincent Ryan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1285438590 ISBN 13: 9781285438597

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2014

Synopsis

Success depends on the ability to think critically. Training and practice turn this ability into a powerful skill. BECOMING A CRITICAL THINKER gives students the opportunity to develop this skill in a classroom environment while stressing its application to daily life. Students learn to solve everyday problems, maintain successful relationships, make career choices, and interpret the messages of advertising in a variety of media. Exercises throughout the text encourage them to practice what they read and to apply it to their own lives. BECOMING A CRITICAL THINKER breaks up critical thinking into a series of cumulative activities, a unique approach that has made this text a staple of many critical thinking courses.

About this title

About the Author:

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero is an internationally known writer, lecturer, and consultant whose areas of special interest and expertise are critical and creative thinking, ethics, educational reform, and social criticism. A pioneer in the movement to make thinking skills instruction an important emphasis at every level of education, he holds the rank of professor emeritus, State University of New York at Delhi, and resides in Dunedin, Florida. Professor Ruggiero's 22 books include Beyond Feelings: A Guide to Critical Thinking, Thinking Critically about Ethical Issues, The Art of Thinking, Teaching Thinking across the Curriculum, A Guide to Thinking Sociologically, Warning: Nonsense Is Destroying America, Making Your Mind Matter, The Practice of Loving Kindness, and Corrupted Culture.

Review:

"It is an excellent text for teaching a combination of writing skills and critical thinking skills to students. The material is very interesting and elicits discussion."

"It's just the right length. It makes the ideas clear to the readers without pulling in a lot of extraneous detail. The book makes its concepts clear using examples that are very easy to relate to. It also simplifies many of the harder concepts of critical thinking, like fallacies and what it means to be a critical thinker."

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1285438590
• ISBN 13: 9781285438597
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208