Critical Thinking: A User’s Manual by Debra Jackson (Author), 2nd Edition, published by Cengage Learning on January 1, 2015, is a comprehensive guide to developing essential critical thinking skills. Spanning 368 pages, this book provides an innovative skill-based approach that walks readers through the process of examining arguments step-by-step. It focuses on recognizing, analyzing, diagramming, and evaluating arguments, building a complete set of critical thinking tools. Later chapters delve into categorical, truth-functional, analogical, inductive, and causal arguments, as well as fallacies. Throughout the book, exercises engage readers in active learning, integrate writing within the critical thinking process, and highlight skill transferability.