Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical ThinkingThis book helps readers bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis. 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 as they read and listen. Chapter titles include: The Benefit of Asking the Right Questions; What are the Issue and the Conclusion?; What Are the Reasons?; What Are the Value Conflicts and Assumptions?; Are There Any Fallacies in the Reasoning?; How Good Is the Evidence: Intuition, Appeals to Authority, and Testimonials?; and What Reasonable Conclusions Are Possible?. For any critical reader who wants to enhance and develop better reasoning skills in order to make rational decisions. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accept advertising Anthropology appeals to authority Archaeology argument Association author means behavior believe biases Blair Witch Project browser chapter communication crime critical thinking critical-thinking CW sites database determine disagree document electronic sources evaluate evidence example experts female infanticide format free e-mail groups home schooled homepage ideas important ISDN issue Journal legal drinking age lethal injection Library look mation movie Netscape newsgroups offers omitted information Online organizations phrase plug-in pornography posting presented questions reasons refer relevant research studies Retrieved rival causes scientific search engines server sponsored survey syllabus Teaneck teen drinking television testimonials tion tool topic TWA Flight 800 typically value assumptions value conflicts videos violence World Wide Web Yahoo Zahi Hawass