Critical Thinking

Name: Critical Thinking
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd
SKU: 9781538139523
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Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life

By Richard Paul and Linda Elder

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Critical Thinking by Richard Paul and Linda Elder is an insightful guide that delves into the essential skills and strategies for developing sound reasoning and decision-making. It explores the principles of critical thinking, offering practical tools and techniques to enhance clarity, logic, and reflection in thought processes. This book aims to empower readers to approach problems thoughtfully and assess information critically.
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This book may appeal to you if you are keen on enhancing your analytical abilities and fostering a deeper understanding of problem-solving and decision-making. It provides practical tools to sharpen your reasoning skills and develop the mindset needed for effective personal and professional growth.

Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Personal and Professional Life is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life. Drs. Richard W. Paul and Linda Elder identify the core skills of effective thinking, then help you analyze your own thought processes so you can systematically identify and overcome your weaknesses.

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Use better thinking to empower yourself, discover opportunities, avoid disastrous mistakes, build wealth, and achieve your biggest goals! This is your complete, up-to-the-minute blueprint for assessing and improving the way you think about everything – from business decisions to personal relationships.

Drs. Richard W. Paul and Linda Elder, of the Center for Critical Thinking, offer specific guidance for making more intelligent decisions, and overcoming the irrationalities and sociocentric limits we all face.

Discover which of the "six stages" of thinking you’re in and learn how to think with clarity, relevance, logic, accuracy, depth, significance, precision, breadth, and fairness. Master strategic thinking skills you can use everywhere and learn how to critically assess what experts tell you.

Packed with new examples and exercises, this guide won’t just help you think more effectively: it will help you use those skills to empower yourself, discover new opportunities, avoid disastrous mistakes, and grow your wealth. Above all, it will help you gain the confidence and clarity you need to pursue and achieve your most important goals in life – whatever they are!

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Critical Thinking by Richard Paul and Linda Elder is praised for offering a well-defined approach that contrasts with the often vague understanding of critical thinking. The authors aim to nurture fair-minded critical thinkers and provide deep insights into improving one's thinking for social justice. The book is filled with examples that help identify flawed reasoning and challenge inherited values, encouraging readers to develop more effective reasoning skills.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781538139523

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 March 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Edition: 2nd edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 33.0mm

Width: 164.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 821g

Pages: 476

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Career Development Linda Elder Mindset & Self Help New Year, New You Non-Fiction Personal Development Philosophy & Psychology Richard Paul Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Dr. Richard Paul was a leading proponent of critical thinking and through his work and legacy remains an international authority in the field. He founded the Center for Critical Thinking at Sonoma State University in 1980, followed by the Foundation for Critical Thinking. He developed concepts, principles, and theory essentials to a robust and fairminded conception of critical thinking and authored more than 200 articles and seven books on the topic. He presented workshops to hundreds of thousands of educators over his 35-year career as a leader in the critical thinking movement.

Dr. Linda Elder is an educational psychologist who has taught both psychology and critical thinking at the college level. She is the President of the Foundation for Critical Thinking and the Executive Director of the Center for Critical Thinking. She has a special interest in the relation of thought and emotion, as well as the cognitive and affective. She has developed an original theory of the stages of critical thinking development. Elder has coauthored four books on critical thinking, as well as all 23 titles found in the Thinker's Guide Library.