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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 argumentsissues, conclusions, reasons, evidence, assumptions, languageand on how to spot fallacies and manipulations and obstacles to critical thinking.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 179 pages

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