Loose Leaf for Critical Thinking with Connect Access Card

Bassham's popular text helps today's students bridge the gap between everyday culture and critical thinking. Using a proven step-by-step approach, this text covers all the basics of critical thinking in clear, reader-friendly language. The 5th edition has taken into account suggestions from users and reviewers of previous editions, and has added an Appendix, and new readings, exercises and examples throughout the text.Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need, when they need it, and how they need it, so that your class time is more engaging and effective. It provides tools that make assessment easier, learning more engaging, and studying more efficient. For instance,Connect contains SmartBook, the first and only adaptive reading experience available for the higher education market. Powered by the intelligent and adaptiveLearnSmart engine, SmartBook facilitates the reading process by identifying what content a student knows and doesn’t know. As a student readsCritical Thinking, the material continuously adapts to ensure that he or she is focused on the content most crucial to closing specific knowledge gaps.