Selected Books and Materials
on Critical Thinking at SPC Libraries
For Faculty and Students


 

 
Critical Reading: Making Sense of Research Papers in Life Sciences and Medicine
Routledge Study Guides
1The paper trail THE DEEP END When you study from a textbook, quite a lot of the book is devoted to explaining the background to each topic and any technical terms. Pick up a research paper, however, and it is likely that the first words you read

 

 

 
Law in Perspective: Ethics, Society and Critical Thinking
 
INTRODUCTION The principal aim of this book is to encourage critical, responsible and creative thinking about law as a system of ideas and as a social institution. It aims also to encourage exploration of the interrelations between legal methods,

 

 

 
The Thinking Game: A Guide to Effective Study
Chatham House Studies in Political Thinking

 

 

 

 
Transforming Critical Thinking: Thinking Constructively
 
INTRODUCTION Robert Ennis's 1962 article in the Harvard Educational Review is usually credited with rekindling interest in critical thinking, which has continued to the present.

 
 
 
Curriculum Integration: Designing the Core of Democratic Education
 
Chapter 1— A Special Kind of Unity Suppose that we are going to work with a group of students on a unit about "Environmental Issues," including major concepts or "big ideas" such as conservation, pollution, politics, and economics.

 
 
 
Critical English for Academic Purposes: Theory, Politics, and Practice
 
 

 
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Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide
 
Cover Chapter 1 Why should we become critical thinkers?     

 
 
 
Teaching Youth Media: A Critical Guide to Literacy, Video Production & Social Change
Series On School Reform

 
Introduction IREMEMBER TAKING MY SON THEO to school on his orientation day for kindergarten. I sat awkwardly in his small wooden chair observing, along with the other parents, as the teacher began to lead an activity.

 
 
 
25 Days to Better Thinking & Better Living: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life
 

 
 
 
Language and Limits: Resisting Reform in English Studies
SUNY Series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning

 

 

 

 
Critical Squares: Games of Critical Thinking and Understanding
 
The Starting Block Game Sample Student Responses Teachers know a good question when they hear one. They also know a good question can create a number of thinking and learning opportunities.

 
 
 
Developing More Curious Minds
 
 

 
 
 
Writing Science Through Critical Thinking
Jones and Bartlett Series in Logic, Critical Thinking, and Scientific Method

 
1— Thinking Science When you pick out your car from a crowded parking lot, when you recognize your friend in a crowded room, your mind runs through many processes.

 


 

 

 
Information Literacy and Technology Research Projects: Grades 6-9
 
Information Literacy and Technology Research Projects Norma Heller LIBRARIES UNLIMITED, INC. �

 
 
 
Thinking From A to Z
 
 

 

 

 
Evidence-based Family Medicine
 

 
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Students As Researchers: Creating Classrooms That Matter
Falmer Press Teachers' Library Series ; 15

 

 
 
 
Nursing Health Assessment: A Critical Thinking, Case Studies Approach
 
Getting Started 10 UNIT I GETTING STARTED levels of health care, and assessment skills are needed at all levels.


 


 

 
Critical Reasoning: A Practical Introduction
 

 
 
 
Thinking It Through: Linking Language Skills, Thinking Skills and Drama
 

 
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Thinking in Education
2Nd Ed.

 

 
 
 
Critical Thinking for Students: How to Assess Arguments and Effectively Present Your Own
 

 

 

 
Technology Connections for Grades 3-5: Research Projects and Activities
 
1— Rights and Responsibilities— Taking a Stand Introduction Most children are not all that fascinated by the study of civics and government.

 
 
 
Critical Systems Analysis and Design: A Personal Framework Approach
 
Cover Part IFoundations for critical learning and teaching Part I provides the foundational development for a PCF perspective. It is the pedagogical basis for developing criticality.
 

 
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Thinking Games to Play With Your Child: Easy Ways to Develop Creative and Critical Thinking Skills
Newly Rev. 2nd Ed.

 
To The Thoughtful Parent In the six years since we first published Thinking Games to Play with Your Child, more and more information has become available about learning and child development.
 

 
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Smart Thinking for Crazy Times: The Art of Solving the Right Problems
 
PART ONE— THE FOUNDATION FOR SMART THINKING illustrate how all institutions and sectors of society persistently engage in solving the wrong problems precisely. The Four Steps of the Problem-Solving Process are discussed.

 
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Critical Thinking: An Introduction to the Basic Skills
 
Critical Thinking Chapter 15. Writing and Assessing Argumentative Essays 15.1 Writing Argumentative Essays: Structure 15.2 Writing Argumentative Essays: Style 15.3 Assessing Argumentative Essays 15.4 Assessing a Sample Argumentative Essay 15.5

 
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501 Challenging Logic and Reasoning Problems
EarningExpress Skill Builders Series (New York, N.Y.)

 
Introduction This book—which can be used alone, along with other logic and reasoning texts of your choice, or in combination with the LearningExpress publication, Reasoning Skills Success in 20 Minutes a Day—will give you practice dealing real reasoning problems.

 
     

 

 

Library Catalog 

Faculty and Classroom Tools
 
     
 Medical-surgical nursing : critical thinking in client care
 
  
Upper Saddle River, N.J. :Pearson/Prentice Hall,c2008.
St. Petersburg/Clearwater Circulation RT41 .M493 2008
 
     
 Asking the right questions : a guide to critical thinking
 
  
Browne, M. Neil,
Upper Saddle River, N.J. :Pearson Prentice Hall,c2007.
St. Petersburg/Clearwater Circulation PN83 .B785 2007
St. Petersburg/Tarpon Springs Circulation PN83 .B785 2007
 
     
 Critical thinking : tools for taking charge of your learning and your life
 
  
Paul, Richard.
Upper Saddle River, NJ :Pearson/Prentice Hall,c2006.
St. Petersburg/Allstate Reserves BF441 .P385 2006
St. Petersburg/Clearwater Circulation BF441 .P385 2006
St. Petersburg/Health Ed. Ctr. Circulation BF441 .P385 2006
St. Petersburg/Gibbs Circulation BF441 .P385 2006
 
     
The international critical thinking reading and writing test : how to assess close reading and substantive writing
 
  
Paul, Richard.
Dillion Beach, CA :Foundation for Critical thinking,c2006.
St. Petersburg/Allstate Reserves LB1590.3.E4347 I58 2006
St. Petersburg/Clearwater Circulation LB1590.3.E4347 I58 2006
St. Petersburg/Health Ed. Ctr. Circulation LB1590.3.E4347 I58 2006
St. Petersburg/Gibbs Circulation LB1590.3.E4347 I58 2006
 
     
  A miniature guide for those who teach on how to improve student learning : 30 practical ideas
 
  
Paul, Richard.
Dillon Beach, CA :Foundation for Critical Thinking,c2006.
St. Petersburg/Allstate Reserves LB1060 .P38 2006
St. Petersburg/Clearwater Circulation LB1060 .P38 2006
St. Petersburg/Health Ed. Ctr. Circulation LB1060 .P38 2006
St. Petersburg/Gibbs Circulation LB1060 .P38 2006
 
     
  The miniature guide to critical thinking : concepts & tools
 
  
Paul, Richard.
Dillon Beach, Calif. :Foundation for Critical Thinking,c2006.
St. Petersburg/Allstate Circulation BF441 .P38 2006
St. Petersburg/Clearwater Circulation BF441 .P38 2006
St. Petersburg/Health Ed. Ctr. Circulation BF441 .P38 2006
St. Petersburg/Gibbs Circulation BF441 .P38 2006
 
     
  The thinker’s guide to fallacies : the art of mental trickery and manipulation

  
Paul, Richard.
Dillon Beach, CA :Foundation for Critical Thinking,c2006.
St. Petersburg/Allstate Reserves BC175 .P38 2006
St. Petersburg/Clearwater Circulation BC175 .P38 2006
St. Petersburg/Health Ed. Ctr. Circulation BC175 .P38 2006
St. Petersburg/Gibbs Circulation BC175 .P38 2006
 
     
  The thinker’s guide to the art of socratic questioning
 
  
Paul, Richard.
Dillon Beach, CA :Foundation for Critical Thinking,c2006.
St. Petersburg/Allstate Reserves BC199.Q4 P38 2006
St. Petersburg/Clearwater Circulation BC199.Q4 P38 2006
St. Petersburg/Health Ed. Ctr. Circulation BC199.Q4 P38 2006
St. Petersburg/Gibbs Circulation BC199.Q4 P38 2006
 
     
  The thinker’s guide to understanding the foundations of ethical reasoning
   Paul, Richard.
Dillon Beach, CA :Foundation for Critical Thinking,c2006.
St. Petersburg/Downtown Circulation B809.2 .P385 2006
 
 Asking the right questions : a guide to critical thinking
 
  
Browne, M. Neil,
Upper Saddle River, N.J. :Pearson Prentice Hall,c2007.
 
Student Based Tools
 
 Your college experience : strategies for success
 
  
Gardner, John N.
Boston, MA :Thomson Wadsworth,2007.
   
 Becoming a critical thinker
 
  
Ruggiero, Vincent Ryan.
Boston :Houghton Mifflin,c2006.
   
 Critical thinking : learn the tools the best thinkers use
 
  
Paul, Richard.
Upper Saddle River, N.J. :Pearson/Prentice Hall,c2006.
St. Petersburg/Seminole Reference REF 370.152 PAUL
   
 Asking the right questions : a guide to critical thinking
 
  
Browne, M. Neil,
Upper Saddle River, N.J. :Pearson Prentice Hall,c2007.
St. Petersburg/Clearwater Circulation PN83 .B785 2007
St. Petersburg/Tarpon Springs Circulation PN83 .B785 2007
   
 Critical thinking : tools for taking charge of your learning and your life
 
  
Paul, Richard.
Upper Saddle River, NJ :Pearson/Prentice Hall,c2006.
   
   
 The miniature guide to critical thinking : concepts & tools
  Paul, Richard.
Dillon Beach, Calif. :Foundation for Critical Thinking,c2006.
St. Petersburg/Seminole Reference REF 370.152 PAUL
   
 Science detectives : how scientists solved six real-life mysteries
 
Toronto, ON :Kids Can Press,c2006.
St. Petersburg/Seminole Childrens J 501 SCIENCE
   
The thinker’s guide to engineering reasoning
  Paul, Richard.
Dillon Beach, CA :Foundation for Critical Thinking,c2006.
St. Petersburg/Seminole Reference REF 601 PAUL
   
The thinker’s guide to fallacies : the art of mental trickery and manipulation
  Paul, Richard.
Dillon Beach, CA :Foundation for Critical Thinking,c2006.
St. Petersburg/Seminole Reference REF 165 PAUL
   
 The thinker’s guide to the art of socratic questioning
  Paul, Richard.
Dillon Beach, CA :Foundation for Critical Thinking,c2006.
St. Petersburg/Seminole Reference REF 371.37 PAUL
   
 The thinker’s guide to understanding the foundations of ethical reasoning
  Paul, Richard.
Dillon Beach, CA :Foundation for Critical Thinking,c2006.
St. Petersburg/Downtown Circulation B809.2 .P385 2006
   
 What matters in America : reading and writing about contemporary culture
  Goshgarian, Gary.
New York :Pearson Longman,2006.
   
The world is a text : writing, reading, and thinking about culture and its contexts
  Silverman, Jonathan.
Upper Saddle River, N.J. :Pearson Prentice Hall,c2006.
   
 Contemporary & classic arguments : a portable anthology
 
Boston, Mass. :Bedford/St. Martin’s,c2005.
   
 Critical systems analysis and design a personal framework approach
  Patel, Nandish V.,
London ; New York :Routledge,2005.
LINCC eResources eBooks    
   
   
 Critical thinking : unfinished business
   
San Francisco :Jossey-Bass,c2005.
   
 Critical thinking for multiple learning styles
  Streeter, Karen M.
Westminster, CA :Teacher Created Resources, Inc.,2005.
   
 Critical thinking, reading, and writing : a brief guide to argument
   
Boston :Bedford/St. Martin’s,c2005.
   
  A guide for educators to critical thinking competency standards : standards, principles, performance indicators, and outcomes with a critical thinking master rubric
  Paul, Richard.
Dillon, Calif. :Foundation for Critical Thinking,c2005.
St. Petersburg/Seminole Reference REF 370.152 PAUL
   
  Learning to think things through : a guide to critical thinking across the curriculum
  Nosich, Gerald M.
Upper Saddle River, N.J. :Pearson/Prentice Hall,c2005.
St. Petersburg/Seminole Reference REF 370.152 NOSICH
   
  The miniature guide for those who teach on practical ways to promote active & cooperative learning
  Hiler, Wesley.
Dillon Beach, CA :Foundation for Critical Thinking,c2005.
St. Petersburg/Seminole Reference REF 370.1523 HILER
   
  The miniature guide to understanding the foundations of ethical reasoning
Paul, Richard.
Dillon Beach, CA :Foundation for Critical Thinking,c2005.
St. Petersburg/Seminole Reference REF 170 PAUL
   
 #28 Reading and writing for civic literacy : the critical citizen’s guide to argumentative rhetoric
  Lazere, Donald.
Boulder, CO :Paradigm Publishers,c2005.