Stella Cottrell is an international bestselling author, with over a million sales worldwide. Her other titles include The Study Skills Handbook, Critical Thinking Skills, Skills for Success, The Bloomsbury Student Planner, The Exam Skills Handbook and Mindfulness for Students. 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.

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• AcknowledgementsIntroducing Critical Thinking Skills1. What is Critical Thinking?2. How Well Do You Think? Develop Your Thinking Skills3. What's Their Point? Identifying Arguments4. Is it an Argument? Argument and Non-Argument5. How Well Do They Say It? Clarity, Consistency and Structure6. Reading Between the Lines: Recognising Underlying Assumptions and Implicit Arguments7. Does it Add Up? Identifying Flaws in the Argument8. Where's the Proof? Finding and Evaluating Sources of Evidence9. Criticality When Selecting, Interpreting and Noting From Sources10. Critical, Analytical Writing: Critical Thinking When Writing11. Mapping and Evaluating Arguments12. Critical Reflection13. Applying Critical Thinking to Career Planning and EmployabilityPractice ActivitiesAppendix: Selected Search Engines and Databases for Online Literature SearchesBibliographyIndex

Stella Cottrell is an international bestselling author, with over a million sales worldwide. Her other titles include The Study Skills Handbook, Critical Thinking Skills, Skills for Success, The Bloomsbury Student Planner, The Exam Skills Handbook and Mindfulness for Students. 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.

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• AcknowledgementsIntroducing Critical Thinking Skills1. What is Critical Thinking?2. How Well Do You Think? Develop Your Thinking Skills3. What's Their Point? Identifying Arguments4. Is it an Argument? Argument and Non-Argument5. How Well Do They Say It? Clarity, Consistency and Structure6. Reading Between the Lines: Recognising Underlying Assumptions and Implicit Arguments7. Does it Add Up? Identifying Flaws in the Argument8. Where's the Proof? Finding and Evaluating Sources of Evidence9. Criticality When Selecting, Interpreting and Noting From Sources10. Critical, Analytical Writing: Critical Thinking When Writing11. Mapping and Evaluating Arguments12. Critical Reflection13. Applying Critical Thinking to Career Planning and EmployabilityPractice ActivitiesAppendix: Selected Search Engines and Databases for Online Literature SearchesBibliographyIndex