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a guide to critical thinking

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a guide to critical thinking

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Prentice Hall
Language
English
Pages
340

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Asking the right questions with readings: a guide to critical thinking
2011, Prentice Hall
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Table of Contents

The benefit of asking the right questions
Critical thinking as a social activity
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, testimonials, and appeals to authority?
How good is the evidence : personal observation, research studies, case examples, and analogies?
Are there rival causes?
Are the statistics deceptive?
What significant information is omitted?
What reasonable conclusions are possible?
Overcoming obstacles to critical thinking
Should we protect children from advertising?
What is the proper role of government in improving the qualitty of families in our culture?
What is the secret to happiness?
In what ways can the media influence society and what can we do about it?
What role does physical appearance play in our lives?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Boston

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808
Library of Congress
PN83 .B7853 2011, PN83.B785 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 340 p. :
Number of pages
340

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24816174M
Internet Archive
askingrightquest0000brow_p8k9
ISBN 10
0205649289
ISBN 13
9780205649280
LCCN
2010025245
OCLC/WorldCat
646629077

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