This text features a novel, hands-on approach to the study of rhetorical devices. The student will become more engaged in the study of critical thinking by seeing its direct application to current events, student life, and decision-making. The book outlines three components of Critical Thinking in Writing: concept clarification, fact-claim verification, and argument/inference validation. These three components, when consciously applied and integrated into creative problem-solving, writing, and meaningful discussion, will help to steer readers towards the main objective of critical thinking, namely to clarify and elucidate controversial issues or issues about which there is ongoing disagreement.