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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey : Pearson Prentice Hall, (c)2004.Edition: seventh editionDescription: xv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780131829930
  • 9780130478351
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN83.K26.A855 2004
  • PN83
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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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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction PN83.B785 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001121488

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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