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These days, strong critical thinking skills provide a vital foundation for academic success. This book offers a clear and unintimidating introduction to what can otherwise be a pretty complex topic. You'll get hands-on, lively, and fun exercises that you can put to work today to improve your arguments and pin down key issues. It provides tools and strategies from a range of disciplines great for developing your reflective thinking skills; offers expert guidance on sound reasoning and textual analysis; shows precisely how to use concept mapping and brainstorming to generate insights; demonstrates how critical thinking skills is a proven path to success as a student. -- Edited summary from book.

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