Invitation to Critical Thinking (Paperback, 5th Revised edition)

As with successful previous editions, the Fifth Edition of INVITATION TO CRITICAL THINKING continues to focus on the recognition, analysis, evaluation, and composition of arguments as discursive tools of rational persuasion. Fostering discussions of critical thinking and its application in mass media, effective writing, and problem solving, this book introduces students to a wide variety of strategies for identifying and analyzing arguments in the world about them. This latest edition features integrated and innovative WebTutor technology developed by Judith Hawkins. This online battery of tools provides critical thinking students with an unprecedented variety of interactive exercises to facilitate increased retention and application of the most essential concepts in critical thinking.