Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking, 9th Edition

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