Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking

by M. Neil Browne

Book cover for Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking

Used in a variety of courses in various disciplines, Asking the Right Questions helps bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis.  Specifically, this concise text teaches how to think critically by exploring the components of arguments--issues, conclusions, reasons, evidence, assumptions, language--and on how to spot fallacies and manipulations and obstacles to critical thinking. 

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  • On Feb 21 2017 cynic2 read this book and commented:

    It is a good starting guide but generally points to the obvious of reading comprehension everybody should have learned in highschool.