Thinking for YourselfMayfield’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 lifelong. 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 when they can separate facts from inferences, opinions, and assumptions, and finally write an argumentative research paper grounded in step-by-step skill development in reasoning and critical analysis. THINKING FOR YOURSELF is a book that students like to read; its hallmark features include interesting (and provocative) readings, cartoons, multiple options for application and testing, and a lively explanation of critical thinking concepts, and standards. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version. |
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| Title | Thinking for Yourself |
| Author | Marlys Mayfield |
| Edition | 8 |
| Publisher | Cengage Learning, 2009 |
| ISBN | 1428231447, 9781428231443 |
| Length | 416 pages |
| Subjects | › Language Arts & Disciplines / Composition & Creative Writing |
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