Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking, Seventh Edition
by M. Neil Browne, Stuart M. Keeley
Category: Literary Criticism

The benefit of asking the right questions - What are the issue and the conclusion? - What are the reasons? - Which words or phrases are ambiguous? - What are the value conflicts and assumptions? - What are the descriptive assumptions? - Are there any fallacies in the reasoning? - How good is the evidence : intuition, appeals to authority, and testimonials? - How good is the evidence : personal observation, case studies, research studies, and analogies? - Are there rival causes? - Are the statistics deceptive? - What significant information is omitted? - What reasonable conclusions are possible? - Practice and review -