Student Success & Career Development

For Freshman Orientation/Critical Thinking courses as well as a supplementary text for use in any subject-matter course at any educational level.

This short, inexpensive guide is designed to help students learn to think critically in any subject-matter course. A combination of instruction and exercises shows them how to use critical thinking to more fully appreciate the power of the discipline they are studying, to see its connections to other fields and to their day-to-day lives, to maintain an overview of the field so they can see the parts in terms of the whole, and to become active learners rather than passive recipients of information.

• NEW - Reorganized Table of Contents—The chapter on Elements of Reasoning now appears as Chapter 2.

  • Helps students develop the tools for critical thinking before they start applying them within their disciplines.

• NEW - “Outcomes” sections at the end of each chapter.

  • Helps students assess their progress in learning to think critically within and about the discipline.

• NEW - “Point of View” section—In Chapter 3.

  • Enables students to more fully appreciate the point of view and the power of the discipline they are studying.

• NEW - “How Do You Fit into the Picture? Becoming a Critical Thinker”—In Chapter 5.

  • Helps students take seriously the idea that critical thinking in a discipline is not just about what you do—it also starts to influence who you are.

• Based on Richard Paul's model of critical thinking—Used by hundreds of teachers with great success in all disciplines taught at the college level; the major theme of the annual International Conference on Critical Thinking, held at Sonoma State University since 1981; and the model in workshops on critical thinking presented by the Foundation for Critical Thinking.

  • Provides instructors with the first short published presentation of the model designed specifically for use as and adjunct text in courses across the curriculum.

• Brief, yet substantive, and immediately applicable.

  • Enables students to read the text all the way through near the beginning of the semester, then to refer back to it again and again, applying specific critical thinking concepts to different parts of the subject matter as the course moves along, gradually integrating the parts together.

• Designed to fit with any level of teacher involvement—Works for instructors who want to focus directly on critical thinking in the way they teach their discipline, as well as for instructors who want to allow their students to work through critical thinking questions on their own, while class time is spent on subject matter instruction.

  • Allows students to self-study, freeing up valuable class time.

• A focus on high intellectual standards.

  • Teaches students 1) to be clear in their writing, reading, speaking, understanding; in the problems they identify, reformulate, address, and find solutions for; 2) to be accurate in their reading and in their rendition of other points of view; 3) to focus on what is relevant and important to the question at hand, rather than dwelling on minor side issues; 4) to go deep enough to address the complexities and the underlying factors of an issue; 5) to be precise, sufficient in their reasoning, and as comprehensive as the topic requires.

• Reorganized Table of Contents—The chapter on Elements of Reasoning now appears as Chapter 2.

  • Helps students develop the tools for critical thinking before they start applying them within their disciplines.

• “Outcomes” sections at the end of each chapter.

  • Helps students assess their progress in learning to think critically within and about the discipline.

• “Point of View” section—In Chapter 3.

  • Enables students to more fully appreciate the point of view and the power of the discipline they are studying.

• “How Do You Fit into the Picture? Becoming a Critical Thinker”—In Chapter 5.

  • Helps students take seriously the idea that critical thinking in a discipline is not just about what you do—it also starts to influence who you are.

(NOTE: Each chapter concludes with a Some Outcomes section and Exercises.)

1. What Is Critical Thinking?

Critical Thinking  (Student Success & Career Development)

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  Learning to Think Things Through: A Guide to Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum, 3/E
  Nosich
  ©2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 256 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0138132429 | ISBN-13: 9780138132422
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  For Freshman Orientation/Critical Thinking courses as well as a supplementary text for use in any subject-matter course at any educational level.

   

  This short, inexpensive guide is designed to help students learn to think critically in any subject-matter course. A combination of instruction and exercises shows them how to use critical thinking to more fully appreciate the power of the discipline they are studying, to see its connections to other fields and to their day-to-day lives, to maintain an overview of the field so they can see the parts in terms of the whole, and to become active learners rather than passive recipients of information. The model of critical thinking (used throughout the book) is in terms of the elements of reasoning, standards, and critical thinking processes. This model is well-suited to thinking through any problem or question.

Dr. Gerald Nosich is a Professor at the University of New Orleans. He has given more than 150 national and international workshops on all aspects of teaching for critical thinking. He's also worked for the U.S. Department of Education on a project for a National Assessment of Higher Order Thinking Skills, served as the Assistant Director at the Center for Critical Thinking at Sonoma State University, and been featured as a Noted Scholar at the University of British Columbia.

On a more personal note, he has at times exercised and not exercised good judgment: he has ridden a motorcycle to Baghdad (and to Ur of the Chaldees, the birthplace of Abraham); he has worked as an immigrant ditch-digger in Switzerland; been imprisoned by Communist authorities in Czechoslovakia; stowed away on a Sicilian ship to Algeria; sailed up the Nile with his family in a felucca; and lived with Maasai warriors in central Africa and in a Yurt in Mongolia. He currently lives in New Orleans with his son.

Since the mid-1980s, Gerald Nosich has been committed to teaching Critical Thinking across the curriculum and throughout the disciplines. He believes that in the final analysis the only way for students to master content in any course is to think their way through it. And the only way to effectively control their own lives and choices is by learning to think more critically about them.

Built on Richard Paul's model of critical thinking, Learning to Think Things Through was written to help students engage in critical thinking within the discipline or subject matter they are studying. In addition, students will better appreciate the power of the discipline they are studying, see its connections to other fields and to their day-to-day lives, maintain an overview of the field so they can see the parts in terms of the whole, and become active learners rather than passive recipients of information. Learning to Think Things Through is ideal for instructors addressing the critical thinking component in composition courses, sciences, humanities, the professions—in any field.

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