Asking the Right Questions
A Guide to Critical Thinking
7th Edition
Published on 3. July 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-13-182993-0 (ISBN)
Description
For all level Critical Thinking, Argumentative Writing, and Informal Logic courses.
This highly popular text helps students bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis. It teaches them to respond to alternative points of view and develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject.
This highly popular text helps students bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis. It teaches them to respond to alternative points of view and develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject.
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Edition
7th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
269 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-182993-0 (9780131829930)
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03/2006
8th Edition
Pearson
€24.75
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Previous edition
Book
08/2000
6th Edition
Pearson
€17.32
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Content
1. The Benefit of Asking the Right Questions.
2. What Are the Issue and the Conclusion?
3. What Are the Reasons?
4. What Words or Phrases Are Ambiguous?
5. What Are the Value Conflicts and Assumptions?
6. What Are the Descriptive Assumptions?
7. Are There Any Fallacies in the Reasoning?
8. How Good Is the Evidence: Intuition, Personal Experience, Testimonials, and Appeals to Authority?
9. How Good Is the Evidence: Personal Observation, Research Studies, Case Examples, and Analogies?
10. Are There Rival Causes?
11. Are the Statistics Deceptive?
12. What Significant Information Is Omitted?
13. What Reasonable Conclusions Are Possible?
14. Practice and Review.
Final Word.
Index.
2. What Are the Issue and the Conclusion?
3. What Are the Reasons?
4. What Words or Phrases Are Ambiguous?
5. What Are the Value Conflicts and Assumptions?
6. What Are the Descriptive Assumptions?
7. Are There Any Fallacies in the Reasoning?
8. How Good Is the Evidence: Intuition, Personal Experience, Testimonials, and Appeals to Authority?
9. How Good Is the Evidence: Personal Observation, Research Studies, Case Examples, and Analogies?
10. Are There Rival Causes?
11. Are the Statistics Deceptive?
12. What Significant Information Is Omitted?
13. What Reasonable Conclusions Are Possible?
14. Practice and Review.
Final Word.
Index.