Scholarship
July 4, 2025
Becoming a Critical Thinker, Edition 7
- Author
- Ruggiero, Vincent Ryan
- Publisher
- Cengage Learning Inc. Wadsworth Publishing
Success depends on the ability to think critically. Training and practice turn this ability into a powerful skill. BECOMING A CRITICAL THINKER gives students the opportunity to develop this skill in a classroom environment while stressing its application to daily life. Students learn to solve everyday problems, maintain successful relationships, make career choices, and interpret the messages of advertising in a variety of media. Exercises throughout the text encourage them to practice what they read and to apply it to their own lives. BECOMING A CRITICAL THINKER breaks up critical thinking into a series of cumulative activities, a unique approach that has made this text a staple of many critical thinking courses.
Features
• “Good Thinking” features throughout the text profile diverse individuals who underscore the role of critical thinking in achievement. Exercises invite students to apply the lessons of the various profiles to their own lives.
• Quizzes at the end of each chapter allow students to test their understanding of chapter concepts.
• Group activities allow students to practice the transfer of individual thinking skills to situations in which problems require a cooperative solution.
• Comprehensive coverage of argumentation helps students develop and communicate arguments strongly. Students are asked to analyze and compare real arguments and viewpoints on contemporary topics as a way of expanding their own reasoning capabilities.
• The depth and breadth of theory, skill building, and application in the text make it ideal for an English Composition course or an introductory course in critical thinking.
(From the Publisher)
Features
• “Good Thinking” features throughout the text profile diverse individuals who underscore the role of critical thinking in achievement. Exercises invite students to apply the lessons of the various profiles to their own lives.
• Quizzes at the end of each chapter allow students to test their understanding of chapter concepts.
• Group activities allow students to practice the transfer of individual thinking skills to situations in which problems require a cooperative solution.
• Comprehensive coverage of argumentation helps students develop and communicate arguments strongly. Students are asked to analyze and compare real arguments and viewpoints on contemporary topics as a way of expanding their own reasoning capabilities.
• The depth and breadth of theory, skill building, and application in the text make it ideal for an English Composition course or an introductory course in critical thinking.
(From the Publisher)