Accessible and engaging, this unique text offers strategies for critical and creative thinking and includes many opportunities for practicing these skills. This text is a comprehensive guide to critical and creative thinking that also shows students how to persuade others. By introducing students to the principals and techniques of creative thinking and how to evaluate their own ideas and the ideas of others, The Art of Thinking, 6/e presents students with a step-by-step process for problem solving. The Art of Thinking has been used successfully in composition and critical thinking courses, and across the curriculum.