Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life

Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life
ISBN-10
0130647608
ISBN-13
9780130647603
Series
Critical Thinking
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
358
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
FT Press
Authors
Richard Paul, Linda Elder

Description

Critical Thinking is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life: in your career, and as a consumer, citizen, friend, parent, and lover. Discover the core skills of effective thinking; then analyze your own thought processes, identify weaknesses, and overcome them. Learn how to translate more effective thinking into better decisions, less frustration, more wealth Ñ and above all, greater confidence to pursue and achieve your most important goals in life.

Other editions

Similar books

  • The Critical Thinking Toolkit
    By Peter S. Fosl, Galen A. Foresman, Jamie C. Watson

    Not only is this volume a key resource for those new to the study of critical thinking, but I suspect that copies will also find their way into the grateful hands of students in any academic discipline that requires the ability to think ...

  • Critical Thinking
    By Jonathan Haber

    In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Jonathan Haber explains how the concept of critical thinking emerged, how it has been defined, and how critical thinking skills can be taught and assessed.

  • The Critical Thinker: The Path To Better Problem Solving, Accurate Decision Making, and Self-Disciplined Thinking
    By Steven Schuster

    These critical thinking principles will help your personal life, career, and friendships. Improve your critical, logical, observational, and rational thinking skills with the timeless principles presented in this book.

  • Critical Thinking: Your Guide to Effective Argument, Successful Analysis and Independent Study
    By Tom Chatfield

    Shortlisted for the British Book Design and Production Awards 2018, Educational Books category Do you need to demonstrate a good argument or find more evidence?

  • Thinking from A to Z
    By Nigel Warburton

    This fully updated edition has many new entries including lawyer's answer, least worst option, stonewalling, sunk-cost fallacy and tautology.

  • Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
    By Bell Hooks

    Throughout these essays, she celebrates the transformative power of critical thinking. This is provocative, powerful, and joyful intellectual work. It is a must read for anyone who is at all interested in education today.

  • Critical Thinkers: Methods for Clear Thinking and Analysis in Everyday Situations from the Greatest Thinkers in History.
    By Rutherford Albert

    Critical Thinkers provides intellectual power to engage with and participate in effective critical thoughts, arguments, debates, reading, and reflection drawn from methods in the history of philosophical cognitive development.

  • Critical Thinking: An Exploration of Theory and Practice
    By Jennifer Moon

    ... Oxford, HowtoBooks Vygotsky, L.(1978) Mind inSociety: the development ofhigher psychological processes Cambridge, Mass.,Harvard University Press Wallace, M.andPoulson, L. (2004) 'Critical reading for self critical writing' , inL.

  • Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide
    By Gary Kemp, Tracy Bowell

    A much-needed guide to thinking critically for oneself and how to tell a good argument from a bad one. Includes topical examples from politics, sport, medicine, music, chapter summaries, glossary and exercises.

  • Critical Thinking: The Basics
    By Stuart Hanscomb

    With discussion questions/exercises and suggestions for further reading at the end of each main chapter, this book is an essential read for students approaching the field of critical thinking for the first time, and for the general reader ...