Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking - Softcover

Browne, M. Neil; Keeley, Stuart M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132203049 ISBN 13: 9780132203043

Publisher: Pearson, 2006

Synopsis

For Courses on Critical Thinking, Argumentative Writing, Informal Logic courses, as well as Student Success courses.

Asking the Right Questions is a concise, well-priced book with great examples, and it thoroughly covers critical thinking.

This highly popular text helps students 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.  Perfect for freshman courses, this brief book does an amazingly thorough job covering critical thinking.

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This highly popular text helps students to 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.

 

While the structure  of this new edition remains the same, for the sake of currency and relevance about two-thirds of the practice passages are new, as well as many of the longer illustrations and the final critical thinking case.  Also, this eighth edition  has been revised to emphasize the positive value of critical thinking as a means to autonomy, curiousity, reasonableness, openness, and better decisions.

Synopsis:

The habits and attitudes associated with critical thinking are transferable to consumer, medical, legal, and general ethical choices. When our surgeon says surgery is needed, it can be life sustaining to seek answers to the critical questions encouraged in Asking the Right Questions This popular book helps bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysing the things we are told and read. It gives strategies for responding to alternative points of view and will help readers develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0132203049
• ISBN 13: 9780132203043
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240