Becoming a Strategic Thinker Developing Skills for Success

In a thought-provoking manner, Potter--an expert on media literacy--lays 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. Features include: Learning objectives Running glossary in the margins Knowledge Styles Diagnostic Inventory Written in a personal, engaging style,Becoming a Strategic Thinkerguides 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.Potter, W. James is the author of 'Becoming a Strategic Thinker Developing Skills for Success', published 2004 under ISBN 9780131179837 and ISBN 0131179837.