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This open textbook is being utilized in a first-year Honors critical thinking course for undergraduate or graduate students by Kaitlyn Creasy at CSUSB. The open textbook provides instruction in informal and formal logic, as well as a variety of exercises in formal and informal logic and a helpful answer key. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was to save students money. Most student access the open textbook as a PDF, which is easily downloadable from the OER website.  Taken from the author’s description: “This is an introductory textbook in logic and critical thinking. The goal of the textbook is to provide the reader with a set of tools and skills that will enable them to identify and evaluate arguments. The book is intended for an introductory course that covers both formal and informal logic. As such, it is not a formal logic textbook, but is closer to what one would find marketed as a critical thinking textbook.” 

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