Chaffee, John.

Thinking critically / John Chaffee - 6th ed. - Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, c2000 - xxi, 554 p. ; 24 cm.

List of readings. - List of Internet activities. - Preface. - Ch. 1. Thinking. - Ch. 2. Thinking critically. - Ch. 3. Solving problems. - Ch. 4. Perceiving. - Ch. 5. Believing and knowing. - Ch. 6. Language and thought. - Ch. 7. Forming and applying concepts. - Ch. 8. Relating and organizing. - Ch. 9. Reporting, inferring and judging. - Ch. 10. Constructing Arguments. - Ch. 11. Reasoning critically. - Ch. 12. Thinking critically, living creatively. - Acknowledgements. - Index.

The ability to think critically is one of the keys to success in college and life. Through careful pacing and interesting exercises, this book helps you develop critical thinking skills. Specifically, it will help you become an active learner, become a critical thinker, live creatively, view situations from different perspectives, solve complex problems, use language effectively, evaluate arguments, compose an argumentattive paper. - Back cover

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