Information: Thinking Critically: What is Critical Thinking

A complete recipe revealing all the major ingredients to master critical thinking; avoiding committing mistakes, improving problem-solving skills, and thus making effective decisions. Discover how to approach problems with scientific approach through multilevel perspective. Learn 3-step formula; develop open-minded thinking Revive the art of childlike curiosity through 6-step process of cultivating curiosity- a sine-qua-non for critical thinking. Uncover 6 quick tips to not get derailed by your touchy-feely emotions and rather make logical arguments.

This is an essential resource for postgraduates and advanced undergraduates looking to hone their skills in critical analysis and communicate their ideas with precision and clarity.

Helps students sharpen their critical thinking skills and improve their analytical reasoning, enabling them to ward off gullibility, develop insightful skepticism, and ask the right questions about material online, in the mass media, or in scholarly publications. Students will learn to understand common errors in thinking; create reliable and valid research methodologies; understand social science concepts needed to make sense of popular and academic claims; and communicate, apply, and integrate the methods learned in both research and daily life.

How to recognize misleading announcements, statistics, graphs, and written reports, revealing the ways lying weasels can use them. We need to think critically about the words and numbers we encounter if we want to be successful at work, at play, and in making the most of our lives. This means checking the plausibility and reasoning--not passively accepting information, repeating it, and making decisions based on it. Readers learn to avoid the extremes of passive gullibility and cynical rejection.

How to think critically by exploring the components of arguments--issues, conclusions, reasons, evidence, assumptions, language--and on how to spot fallacies and manipulations and obstacles to critical thinking.