Asking the right questions : a guide to critical thinking

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TextPublication details: Boston Pearson c2005.Description: 185 p. ; 23 cm.; PbkISBN:

9781292068701

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DDC classification:

160 BRO

LOC classification:

JK1985 .A85 2006

Available additional physical forms:

https://www.pearson.ch/HigherEducation/Pearson/EAN/9781292068701/Asking-the-Right-Questions-Global-Edition

Contents:

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?

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	160 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K2279

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?

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.

https://www.pearson.ch/HigherEducation/Pearson/EAN/9781292068701/Asking-the-Right-Questions-Global-Edition

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