Becoming a Critical Thinker: A User Friendly Manual

by Sherry Diestler, Colleen Mahy

What Is a Critical Thinker and When Do I Need to Be One? I Know What I Think—Don’t Confuse Me with Facts Who Said So? And Who Are They Anyway? What’s Your Point? The text will train you to distinguish high-quality, well-supported arguments from arguments with little or no supporting evidence. Its tone and clarity of approach has long made this text a favourite for critical thinking courses. Becoming a Critical Thinker, Canadian edition, contains many articles, examples and references that reflect our Canadian society, including key thinkers, writers and broadcast media. Canadian students will certainly benefit from exposure to models that are relevant, educational, provocative, and in some cases inspirational.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help

440 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1993

Reviews

[Jamie Elizabeth]

Read for college

[Gunel]

Interesting reading passages that can be used in classroom 👍

[Robin]

It was a school book, so it isn't an amazing piece of literature, but it is informative and easy to understand. Definitely useful for my Political Science class.

[Dina]

Great reference for developing critically thinking skills. Gives you self-reflective exercises and Stop and Think scenarios....

[Melissa Luna]

awesome

Great book simple reading, very helpful for my class. Pursuits we'll with the Pearson online lab. The interactive aspects are amazing

[John]

Textbooks. Yeah. It was put together well, though.

[Suzanne Singman]

It was a school book for one of my daughters. I really enjoyed it. Not only did I learn about critical thinking and remember not to take arguments personally and to focus on the issues, not personalities, which is so important these days. But, also the articles were very interesting.

It is a text book, so there are questions and 'quizes' in the middle of the chapter, and suggested papers to write. I didn't do any of those things, which may have helped me understand, but I was reading it for fun, not for a class.

[Gloria]

I read this book as part of Lumerit's Critical Thinking course. It was an excellent read. Very informative. I highly recommend everyone read it.