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Mayfield's THINKING FOR YOURSELF fully integrates critical thinking with composition and reading. Rather than teaching from the "outside in" of rules and imitation, the text offers students an "inside out" approach for improving their own thinking, perceiving, writing, and awareness skills. With each chapter building upon previously developed skills, students learn how to write more detailed description as they learn to observe better; to write reports where they can separate facts from inferences, opinions, and assumptions; and finally to write an argumentative research paper grounded in step-by-step skill development in reasoning and critical analysis. Its hallmark features include interesting readings, cartoons, multiple options for application and testing, and a lively explanation of critical thinking concepts and standards. In 2016, THINKING FOR YOURSELF won the Textbook & Academic Authors Association’s McGuffey Longevity Award for demonstrated excellence over 15 years.
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Mayfield's THINKING FOR YOURSELF fully integrates critical thinking with composition and reading. Rather than teaching from the "outside in" of rules and imitation, the text offers students an "inside out" approach for improving their own thinking, perceiving, writing, and awareness skills. With each chapter building upon previously developed skills, students learn how to write more detailed description as they learn to observe better; to write reports where they can separate facts from inferences, opinions, and assumptions; and finally to write an argumentative research paper grounded in step-by-step skill development in reasoning and critical analysis. Its hallmark features include interesting readings, cartoons, multiple options for application and testing, and a lively explanation of critical thinking concepts and standards. In 2016, THINKING FOR YOURSELF won the Textbook & Academic Authors Association’s McGuffey Longevity Award for demonstrated excellence over 15 years.
There are 30 high interest readings in the 9th edition. Featured authors include John Bul Dau, Samuel H. Scudder, Dorr Bothwell, Frances Moore Lappé, Christopher Ketchem, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Socorro Venegas, John Bul Dau, Kate Chopin, William Ecenbarger, Mark Twain, Barbara Ehrenreich, Leslie T. Chang, Alice Owens-Johnson, Naomi Starkman, Richard M. Nixon, Ferris Jabr, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Jefferson, Susan B. Anthony, and Sherry Turkle.
There are updated social and political examples, new student writing samples, new cartoons and new photographs for use in descriptive and analytical writing exercises.
The text's unique approach fully integrates writing skills with thinking skills, and the teaching of composition with instruction in critical thinking.
Students learn thinking and writing from the inside out--with a focus on their thinking, perceiving, and awareness--rather than from an outside in focus on imitation and admonitions.
Table of contents
PART I: BASICS OF CRITICAL THINKING.
- 1. Observation Skills: What's Out There?
- 2. Word Precision: How Do I Describe It?
- 3. Facts: What's Real?
- 4. Inferences: What Follows?
PART II: PROBLEMS OF CRITICAL THINKING.
- 5. Assumptions: What's Taken for Granted?
- 6. Opinions: What's Believed?
- 7. Viewpoints: What's the Filter?
PART III: FORMS AND STANDARDS OF CRITICAL THINKING.
- 8. Argument: What's a Good Argument?
- 9. Fallacies: What's a Faulty Argument?
- 10.Inductive Reasoning: How Do I Reason from Evidence?
- 11.Inductive Fallacies: How Can Inductive Reasoning Go Wrong?
- 12.Deductive Reasoning: How Do I Reason from Premises?
- APPENDIX.
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