This book is an excellent guide to the process of critical thinking. Acknowledgements, Introduction, Analyzing Reasoning, Recognizing Reasoning and Identifying Conclusions, Identifying Reasons, Identifying Assumptions, Evaluating Reasoning, Evaluating the Truth of Reasons and Assumptions, Evaluating Support for Conclusions, Evaluating Further Evidence, Summarizing the Skills of Evaluation, Recognizing Implications, Drawing Conclusions, Recognizing Implications of Arguments, Two Skills in the Use of Language, Using Language with Clarity and Precision, Summarizing Arguments, Exercising the Skills of Reasoning, Longer Passages of Reasoning, Answers to Exercises, Bibliography and Further Reading, Index.