This course helps students develop and refine their higher-order thinking skills. Students will analyze the thinking evident in a variety of texts and media for clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, significance, fairness, and ethics. Students will also write frequently, applying the same standards to their own thinking and writing. The Measurement of Academic Proficiency and Progress, the test adopted by Limestone to measure each student's general education competency levels, will be included as one of the assessment methods for the course.