How to Think: Your Essential Guide to Clear, Critical Thought

by Tom Chatfield

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This is a book about thinking. Engaging and down-to-earth, it captures the habits and practices that are fundamental to clear thinking and effective study.

In his warm and friendly style, Tom Chatfield shows you how to:

  • Identify and examine your biases
  • Engage in lively, curious skepticism
  • See the value in emotion and use rhetoric persuasively
  • Know when to say 'I don't know'
  • Construct reasoned arguments and explanations
  • Think critically about how you engage with technology.

Short and punchy, the book views critical thinking as a skill to be continually practiced and developed. It equips you with a toolkit for clearer thinking, describing ten key concepts that help you to apply what you have learned. Including regular reflective exercises, key concepts, further readings, each chapter also offers recommendations for how to put the ideas it discusses into practice.

This book is for undergraduate students and anyone looking to understand the core ideas behind critical thinking. Celebrating both self-reflection and collaboration, this book empowers you to pause, think twice and, above all, think well.

  • ISBN10 1529727413
  • ISBN13 9781529727418
  • Publish Date 21 June 2021 (first published 2 June 2021)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint SAGE Publications Ltd