This book is the result of more than five years' work and experience in the teaching of critical reading and thinking skills to uni-versity students under the course name Advanced English at the School of Foreign Languages Boğaziçi University. The course is also now under way in the MA programme of the Department of English Language Teaching at Yıldız Technical University. It is based on the author's lecture notes much evolved through interaction with her students over the years. The main purpose of the author in the writing of this book is to provide teachers/learners with a useful medium for making the teaching and learning of critical reading and thinking skills possible and widespread; an urgent need in her view especially in Turkish schools and uni-versities. Therefore the expected readers of the book are all those teaching and studying English for Academic Purposes