Don't Get It Twisted: Critical Thinking in the Classroom

No Waze app or Google Map can guide you to the intersection of strong critical thinking and strong writing. The “twists” and hazards and road blocks in your way to reaching “this” crucial and empowering destination are not topographical or traffic-related but social, political, philosophical, and mostly, NOT your fault. With compassion and hard-earned insights, Don’t Get it Twisted exposes and seeks to “clear” some of these unseen obstacles; each chapter pauses to explore a deceptive or “invisible” barrier that places strong critical thinking and strong writing just out of the reach of the uninformed. Both eye-opening and practical, Don’t Get it Twisted offers fresh techniques and anecdotes in a provocative “heads-up” about what “we” cannot afford to get twisted in higher education and beyond—as students, teachers, citizens, human beings.