Becoming a Strategic Thinker: Developing Skills for Success [Paperback]

In a thought-provoking manner, Potteran expert on media literacylays out eight essential skills that will empower students to become insightful, independent learners. Through these eight skills, the book takes the concept of critical thinking beyond the traditional focus on one or two skills, yielding a positive, more constructive approach.

• Learning objectives
• Running glossary in the margins
• Knowledge Styles Diagnostic Inventory

Written in a personal, engaging style, Becoming a Strategic Thinker guides readers through the hurdles of filtering information to get the most value from it, generating useful and accurate knowledge structures, and communicating that knowledge to others in a powerfully persuasive way.

1. The Challenges.
2. Strategic Thinking.
3. Knowledge Styles.
4. Skill 1: Analysis.
5. Skill 2: Evaluation.
6. Skill 3: Induction.
7. Skill 4: Deduction.
8. Skill 5: Grouping.
9. Skill 6: Synthesis.
10. Skill 7: Abstracting.
11. Skill 8: Persuasive Expression.
12. Conclusion.

For courses in Critical Thinking, Freshman Experience, College Orientation, Study Skills, and Information Literacy.

This book addresses the biggest challenges facing students today: (1) dealing with the flood of information in all courses and from society at large; al3#