Acquiring critical thinking skills Book

This excellent, easy-to-read resource provides specific strategies for applying criticial thinking and problem-solving skills to reading, writing, mathematics, and studying in general. The reader is able to better understand, interpret, apply, and evaluate information gleaned from textbooks or classroom learning. Examples from real-life allied health settings illustrate complex critical thinking skills.The book's four sections help students to read with greater depth and judgment, write more logically, concisely, and clearly, master the math problems they encounter at school and at work, and use critical thinking to improve test-taking results.Exercises taken from actual allied health texts offer true-to-life practice in reading and working with representative textbook selections.Reading selections throughout give students experience in applying the critical thinking skills that they have learned.A student journal provides an opportunity to assess, react to, and synthesize information from each chapter.Examples from real-life allied health settings illustrate complex critical thinking tasks.