Asking the right questions : a guide to critical thinking /: a guide to critical thinking. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: M. Neil Browne, Stuart M. Keeley, Bowling Green State University.
• Authors: Browne, M. Neil, 1944-; Keeley, Stuart M, 1941-
• Contents: The benefit and manner of asking the right questions -- Speed bumps interfering with your critical thinking -- What are the issue and the conclusion? -- What are the reasons? -- What words or phrases are ambiguous? -- What are the value and descriptive assumptions? -- Are there any fallacies in the reasoning? -- How good is the evidence : intuition, personal experience, case examples, testimonials, and appeals to authority? -- How good is the evidence : personal observation, research studies, and analogies? -- Are there rival causes? -- Are the statistics deceptive? -- What significant information is omitted? -- What reasonable conclusions are possible?
• Edition: Eleventh edition
• Publisher Details: Boston : Pearson
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 169 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 808; Criticism; Critical thinking; Critique; Pensée critique; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric; REFERENCE / Writing Skills; Critical thinking; Criticism; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781292068718
• Related ISBNs: 9780321907950; 0321907957; 129206871X
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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