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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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Asking the Right Questions Summary

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

  • 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.

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, 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.

Additional information

GOR004407164
9780137581863
0137581866
Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking by M. Neil Browne
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
1998-02-28
179
N/A
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