Thinking for Yourself

Watch your writing improve as your thinking skills improve!

Discover the important connection between your thinking and your writing with this text’s unique integration of composition with critical thinking and critical reading. A pioneering critical thinking educator, Marlys Mayfield shows you how to train and refine your own skills of perception, thinking, and expression. Using a blend of step-by-step instruction, provocative readings and writing exercises, humour, cartoons, photographs, and up-to-date social and political examples, the text is designed for lifelong self-directed improvement in thinking and writing.

Additional tools to advance your skills:

Scoring Boxes after each writing application help you evaluate your progress, conduct peer reviews, clarify instructions, and hone your thinking.

Advanced Optional Writing Assignments offer you more opportunities to master the material.

Appendix One, “The Research Paper,” includes a sample student paper for convenient reference once you have learned how to research, write, and analyse argumentation.

Appendix Two, “Media Literacy,” helps you become a savvy consumer of news and media communications by learning to access, analyse, and evaluate information for reliability.