Asking the right questions : a guide to critical thinking
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Upper Saddle River, N.J. :
Prentice Hall ,
c2010
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| Edition: | 9th ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The benefit of asking the right
- 2. Critical thinking as a social activity
- - 3. What are the issue and the conclusion?
- 4. What are the reasons?
- 5. What words or phrases are ambiguous?
- 6. What are the value and 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. Overcoming obstacles to critical thinking