Stella was formerly Director of Lifelong Learning at the University of Leeds, and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Learning and Teaching at the University of East London. She has an international reputation for teaching and learning with her publications for staff and students being used by universities and colleges around the world. First published in 1999, The Study Skills Handbook is now in its 5th edition and has sold more than ¾ million copies worldwide. Stella has authored a number of other bestselling study skills guides as part of the Bloomsbury Study Skills series including Critical Thinking Skills and The Bloomsbury Student Planner. Bloomsbury's interactive e-learning study skills resource, Skills for Study, is also based on her work.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introducing Critical Thinking Skills
1. What is Critical Thinking?
2. How Well Do You Think? Develop Your Thinking Skills
3. What's Their Point? Identifying Arguments
4. Is it an Argument? Argument and Non-Argument
5. How Well Do They Say It? Clarity, Consistency and Structure
6. Reading Between the Lines: Recognising Underlying Assumptions and Implicit Arguments
7. Does it Add Up? Identifying Flaws in the Argument
8. Where's the Proof? Finding and Evaluating Sources of Evidence
9. Criticality When Selecting, Interpreting and Noting From Sources
10. Critical, Analytical Writing: Critical Thinking When Writing
11. Mapping and Evaluating Arguments
12. Critical Reflection
13. Applying Critical Thinking to Career Planning and Employability
Practice Activities
Appendix: Selected Search Engines and Databases for Online Literature Searches
