General Information

Author/Creator

Browne, M. Neil, 1944-

Language

English.

Published

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2004.

Physical Description

xv, 208 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Keeley, Stuart M., 1941-

Subjects

Subject

Criticism.

Critical thinking.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

M. Neil Browne, Stuart M. Keeley.

Note

Includes index.

Content

1. The benefit of asking the right questions -- 2. What are the issue and the conclusion? -- 3. What are the reasons? -- 4. What words or phrases are ambiguous? -- 5. What are the value conflicts and assumptions? -- 6. What are the descriptive assumptions? -- 7. Are there any fallacies in the reasoning? -- 8. How good is the evidence: intuition, personal experience, testimonials, and appeals to authority? -- 9. How good is the evidence: personal observation, research studies, case examples, and analogies? -- 10. Are the rival causes? -- 11. Are the statistics deceptive? -- 12. What significant information is omitted? -- 13. What reasonable conclusions are possible? -- 14. Practice and review -- Final word.

ISBN

0131829939

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	808 BRO		OSA Repository	Donation of School of Public Policy.

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