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Asking the right questions : a guide to critical thinking / M. Neil Browne, Stuart M. Keeley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Edition: Seventh editionDescription: xv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0131829939
  • 9780131829930
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808 21
LOC classification:
  • PN83 .B785 2004
Contents:
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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Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 808 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A413835B
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 808 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A413831B

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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