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Asking the Right Questions M. Neil Browne

Asking the Right Questions By M. Neil Browne

Asking the Right Questions by M. Neil Browne


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Helps students bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis. This book 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.

Asking the Right Questions Summary

Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking by M. Neil Browne

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.

Table of Contents



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.

Additional information

GOR002671808
9780131829930
0131829939
Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking by M. Neil Browne
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
20030703
224
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