The Art of Questioning: An Introduction to Critical Thinking - Softcover

Flage Ph.D., Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130936995 ISBN 13: 9780130936998

Publisher: Pearson, 2003

Synopsis

For undergraduate level courses in Critical Thinking, and Writing courses.

This text offers students the clearest explanations and the most examples of any critical thinking text on the market. Begins with issues concerning words, examines techniques for evaluating explanations and arguments, and concludes by applying all the skills to reading essays and writing argumentative essays.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Dan Flage provides a comprehensive and systematic approach to critical thinking in his text The Art of Questioning. It begins with simple issues at the level of words and concludes with large-scale applications, applying all the skills discussed in this book to reading and writing essays. Throughout, there is a commitment to intellectual rigor and student-friendliness. Each topic begins with relatively simple and straightforward cases and moves systematically to the kinds of messy cases found in ordinary language.

Features of The Art Of Questioning:

• Contains over 1,200 exercises and discussion questions drawn from diverse sources and covering numerous distinct topics
• Draws examples and exercises from a wide range of fields- both timeless classic and contemporary issues, such as the events of September 11.
• Includes solutions to the odd-numbered exercises, which gives students immediate feedback on their work.
• Contains unique chapters on evaluation of essays (Chapter 32) and writing argumentative essays (Chapter 33) that pull together all the individual skills honed in the earlier chapters.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0130936995
• ISBN 13: 9780130936998
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 528