Thinking for Yourself

THINKING FOR YOURSELF: DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS THROUGH READING AND WRITING offers a unique integration of composition, reading, and critical thinking. As you complete the book's writing assignments, you'll see how your writing reflects your thinking and how self-directed improvement in thinking also improves writing. The book offers step-by-step instruction, humor, cartoons, Internet research exercises, and up-to-date social and political examples as a foundation for lifelong improvement in thinking and writing.

Marlys Mayfield is a pioneer in the teaching of critical thinking in combination with writing; she began developing this book for her English Composition students at the College of Alameda in 1983. She is now retired and occasionally teaches part-time at the College of Marin.