Thinking for Yourself: Developing Critical Thinking Skills Through Reading and Writing

by Marlys Mayfield

Focusing on the teaching of thinking through writing, the Seventh Edition of Mayfield's Thinking for Yourself provides students with new high-interest readings, cartoons, and Internet research exercises. Clarity of exposition, interesting (and provocative) readings, cartoons, and the application of acquired thinking skills in writing have remained hallmark features of the book. The edition has been upgraded to feature a two-color design and a new, robust web site.

Genres: Writing

408 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1987

Reviews

[Sandra]

I have decided to improve my critical thinking skills so I purchased this book, and I have to say that this is a rare gem. The author managed to explain in a detailed fashion the basics of critical thinking, its problems and its forms. She also gives us the little perks of arguing, analysing discourses... I believe that I will need to go back to the book regularly though. I would recommend it to anyone interested in becoming better critical thinkers.

[Jules]

don’t judge me i had to read this for school it counts!!!

[Nan]

This was the first textbook I used as composition teacher. As a newbie teacher, I had a difficult time using it, and my students found it often inaccessible. I was pleased when our department chose another book.

[Ashleigh Spicy Geek]

This has to be the first and only school textbook I started reading before the semester started and I was always ahead in my reading. This is the perfect read to help you notice how people try to deceit using words (falacies) and to make you begin to think more critically.

[Horeya Elgardouh]

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