TY  - BOOK
AU  -  M.Neil Browne
AU  - Stuart M.Keeley
AU  - Lin,Herbert
ED  - National Research Council (U.S.).
ED  - National Research Council (U.S.).
TI  - Asking the right questions: a guide to critical thinking
SN  - 9781292068701
AV  - JK1985 .A85 2006
U1  - 160 BRO 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Pearson
KW  - Electronic voting
KW  - United States
KW  - Elections
KW  - Data processing
KW  - Voting
KW  - Technological innovations
N1  - Used in a variety of courses in various disciplines, Asking the Right Questions helps students bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis.  Specifically, this concise text teaches students to think critically by exploring the components of arguments--issues, conclusions, reasons, evidence, assumptions, language--and on how to spot fallacies and manipulations and obstacles to critical thinking in both written and visual communication.  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; Includes bibliographical references;  1: The Benefit and Manner of Asking the Right Questions 
 2: Speed Bumps Interfering with Your Critical Thinking
 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, Case Examples, Testimonials, and Appeals to Authority? 
 9: How Good Is the Evidence: Personal Observation, 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?; https://www.pearson.ch/HigherEducation/Pearson/EAN/9781292068701/Asking-the-Right-Questions-Global-Edition
N2  - Critical Thinking as a Process - Emphasizes that critical thinking is not primarily an effort to demonstrate what is faulty about the thinking of others.  Instead, it is a process for improving the beliefs and decisions we each must make.  
A step-by-step approach to learning—Introduces a particular critical thinking learning skill in each chapter, and adds to the list of accumulated skills with each subsequent chapter.
Practice Passages-Opportunities for applying a critical thinking skill immediately to a short passage appear at the end of each chapter.
Writing Instruction- Presents instruction how to turn critical analysis into effective, coherent prose. 
Images-Ten images appear for analysis and discussion
ER  -