Asking the right questions : a guide to critical thinking / M. Neil Browne, Stuart M. Keeley.
Material type: TextPublication details: Upper Saddle River, NJ ; London : Pearson Education, c2010.Edition: 9th ed., international edDescription: xii, 179 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780205766208 (Paper)
- 020576620X (Paper)
- 808 BRO
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection | 808 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00214516 |
Prev. ed.: 2007.
Includes index.
1.The benefit and manner of asking the right question -- 2.What are the issue and the conclusion - 3.What are the reasons? -- 4.What words or phrases are ambiguous? -- 5.What are the value and descriptive assumptions -- 6.Are there any fallacies in the reasoning -- 7.How good is the evidence: intuition, personal experience, case examples, testimonials, and appeals to authority? -- 8.How good is the evidence: personal observation, research studies, and analogies -- 9.Are there rival causes? -- 10.Are the statistic deceptive? -- 11.What significant information is omitted? -- 12.What reasonable conclusions are possible?