Moore Brooke Noel - ISE EBook Online Access Critical Thinking

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Brooke Noel Moore
Richard Parker

California State University, Chico

with help in Chapter 12
from Nina Rosenstand and Anita Silvers

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CRITICAL THINKING

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Brief Contents

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Contents

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Critical Thinking... Skills for the course. Skills for life.

More Engaging

Moore & Parker are known for fresh and lively writing. They rely on their own classroom experience and on feedback from instructors in getting the correct balance between explication and example.

• Examples and exercises are drawn from todays headlines.

• Students learn to apply critical thinking skills to situations in a wide variety of areas: advertising, politics, the media, popular culture.

More Relevant

Moore & Parker spark student interest in skills that will serve them throughout their lives, making the study of critical thinking a meaningful endeavor.

• Boxes show students how critical thinking skills are relevant to their day-to-day lives.

• Striking visuals in every chapter show students how images affect our judgment and shape our thinking.

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Moore & Parker provide a path to student success, making students active participants in their own learning while teaching skills they can apply in all their courses.