Thinking for Yourself: Developing Critical Thinking Skills Through Reading and Writing

Focusing on the teaching of thinking through writing, the Seventh Edition of Mayfield's Thinking for Yourself provides students with new high-interest readings, cartoons, and Internet research exercises. Clarity of exposition, interesting (and provocative) readings, cartoons, and the application of acquired thinking skills in writing have remained hallmark features of the book. The edition has been upgraded to feature a two-color design and a new, robust web site.

Marlys Mayfield was a pioneer in the teaching critical thinking together with writing; she began developing this book for her English composition students at the College of Alameda in 1983. At present she offers her services as a critical thinking teaching consultant.