Asking the Right Questions
A Guide to Critical Thinking
5th Edition
Published on 28. February 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
179 pages
978-0-13-758186-3 (ISBN)
Description
Appropriate for all level Critical Thinking courses in English, Social Science, Philosophy, Education, Journalism, and Mass Communication departments.
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 as they read and listen.
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 as they read and listen.
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Edition
5th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
233 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-758186-3 (9780137581863)
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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, Appeals to Authority, and Testimonials?
9. How Good Is the Evidence: Personal Observation, Case Studies, Research Studies, 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.
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, Appeals to Authority, and Testimonials?
9. How Good Is the Evidence: Personal Observation, Case Studies, Research Studies, 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.
Index.