READING FOR THINKING, 9th Edition, with Cengage Infuse digital resources, engages students with high-interest and thought-provoking readings drawn from textbooks, magazines, and newspapers. The readings, covering a wide range of topics such as women who fought in the Civil War, animals who need lawyers, and the effect of class on marriage, are all accompanied by carefully constructed and precisely scaffolded exercises that take students step by step from comprehension to critical reading. With Flemming step-by-step approach, students can see that learning to read critically is only an enlargement of what they have already learned about comprehension, not a distinctly different skill. Viewed in this way, critical reading, with its emphasis on recognizing purpose, distinguishing between fact and opinion, recognizing faulty logic, and spotting subtle forms of bias, is just another way of answering the question that focuses Reading for Thinking 9 from first page to last: What methods do writers use to inform, influence, or flat out change a reader way of thinking?Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.