Asking the right questions : a guide to critical thinking / M. Neil Browne, Stuart M. Keeley.
Material type: TextPublisher: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Edition: Seventh editionDescription: xv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0131829939
- 9780131829930
- 808 21
- PN83 .B785 2004
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Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 808 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A413835B | ||
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Includes index.
Benefit of asking the right questions -- What are the issues and the conclusion? -- What are the reasons? -- What words or phrases are ambiguous? -- What are the value conflicts and assumptions? -- What are the descriptive assumptions? -- Are there any fallacies in the reasoning? -- How good is the evidence : intuition, personal experience, testimonials, and appeals to authority? -- How good is the evidence : personal observation, research studies, case examples, and analogies? -- Are there rival causes? -- Are the statistics deceptive? -- What significant information is omitted? -- What reasonable conclusions are possible? -- Practice and review -- Final word.
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