A Guide to Critical Thinking

The book "Asking the right questions" written by M.N. Brownw and Stuart M. Keeley is a useful guide for students who want to improve the skills of critical thinking. Here I would like to extract the gist that may help our students to have a jump start on the road leading to critical thinking.

List of critical questions

1. What are the issues and the conclusions?
2. What are the reasons?
3. Which words or phrases are ambiguous?
4. What are the value conflicts and assumptions?
5. What are the descriptive assumptions?
6. Are there any fallacies in the reasoning?
7. How good is the evidence?
8. Are there rival causes?
9. Are the statistics deceptive?
10. What significant information is omitted?
11. What reasonable conclusions are possible?

This book is available at local public libraries and the call number is 153BRO