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For all level Critical Thinking, Argumentative Writing, and Informal Logic courses in English, Social Science, Philosophy, Education, Journalism, and Mass Communication departments.

This highly popular text helps students bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis. It teaches them to respond to alternative points of view and develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject.

• NEW - Expanded treatment of the role of values in critical thinking.

  • Emphasizes part of the process that enables students to make rational and moral choices about social issues—even those with which they have had little experience. Ex.___

• NEW - Added sections in most chapters.

  • Explains how critical thinking can enhance the speaking and writing of those who learn the skills in this text. Ex.___

• NEW - Completely rewritten final chapter.

  • Demonstrates, in one place, the integrated use of critical thinking skills, and helps students see skills as something to be applied—rather than isolated. Ex.___

• NEW - Numerous new practice passages—Available on a Web site.

  • Provides students with a workbook-like set of application opportunities. Ex.___

• A focus on question-asking skills.

  • Teaches students to develop their critical-thinking abilities by not always accepting what they hear as truth. Ex.___

• Treatment of critical thinking as a generic skill.

  • Makes the learning process applicable to all disciplines. Ex.___

• Broad understanding of different types of evidence.

  • Explores the criteria for rational conversation and the quality of reasoning. Ex.___

• Analysis of biases.

  • Familiarizes students with preconceived ideas that hinder critical thinking. Ex.___

• Caution Boxes.

  • Alert students to common misunderstandings that interfere with the effective use of an idea or skills. Ex.___

• Use of graphics and cartoons.

  • Enlivens the presentation and helps clarify complex or significant points. Ex.___

• Chapter-length illustration.

  • Highlights for students the system of “right” questions. Ex.___

• Informal writing style.

  • Offers students a readable text with a simplified format that outlines the basic skills explicitly and concisely. Ex.___

• Key definitions highlighted throughout.

  • Emphasizes important terminology needed for understanding and evaluating reasoning. Ex.___

• Expanded treatment of the role of values in critical thinking.

  • Emphasizes part of the process that enables students to make rational and moral choices about social issues—even those with which they have had little experience. Ex.___

• Added sections in most chapters.

  • Explains how critical thinking can enhance the speaking and writing of those who learn the skills in this text. Ex.___

• Completely rewritten final chapter.

  • Demonstrates, in one place, the integrated use of critical thinking skills, and helps students see skills as something to be applied—rather than isolated. Ex.___

• Numerous new practice passages—Available on a Web site.

  • Provides students with a workbook-like set of application opportunities. Ex.___

 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, Appeals to Authority, and Testimonials?


 9. How Good Is the Evidence: Personal Observation, Case Studies, Research Studies, and Analogies?


10. Are There 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.


Index.

Study Skills  (Developmental English)
Argument  (Composition)
Informal Logic  (Philosophy)
Critical Thinking  (Philosophy)

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  Asking the Right Questions, 9/E
  Browne & Keeley
  ©2010 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 192 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205506682 | ISBN-13: 9780205506682
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  For courses in critical thinking and argument, and in any course requiring critical thinking skills.

   

  The definitive and concise guide to thinking critically.

   

  Used in a variety of courses in various disciplines, Asking the Right Questions helps students bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis.  Specifically, this concise text teaches students to think critically by exploring the components of arguments--issues, conclusions, reasons, evidence, assumptions, language--and on how to spot fallacies and manipulations and obstacles to critical thinking.  It teaches them to respond to alternative points of view and develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject. 

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  Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking, 8/E
  Browne & Keeley
  ©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 240 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132203049 | ISBN-13: 9780132203043
  Brief Description

  

  For Courses on Critical Thinking, Argumentative Writing, Informal Logic courses, as well as Student Success courses.

  Asking the Right Questions is a concise, well-priced book with great examples, and it thoroughly covers critical thinking.

  This highly popular text helps students bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis. It teaches them to respond to alternative points of view and develop a solid foundation for making personal choices about what to accept and what to reject.  Perfect for freshman courses, this brief book does an amazingly thorough job covering critical thinking.

"I have assigned ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS to a wide range of students in a wide range of courses over my fourteen years as a college professor. First-year college students have used the book to analyze and evaluate arguments about contemporary business issues. College juniors and seniors have used the book to analyze and evaluate legal arguments, and issues related to race and gender. … Many of my students tell me the book has changed the way they read, write, and argue." — Andrea Giampetro-Meyer, J.D., Loyola College in Maryland

"I think ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS is one of the most valuable resources currently available for higher education courses as well as for other contexts…. Virtually any course could benefit from the addition of this book and the integration of the authors' approach to critical thinking. I myself have used the book for several years in a variety of courses and know that it has truly enhanced my students' rational thinking processes." — Norrine L. Ostrowski, Ph.D., University of Minnesota-Morris

"As an instructor I like the approach ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS takes. It is practical and uses a cross-disciplinary approach. Asking the "right" questions is a technique that can be used in any discipline at any level."— Valeri Farmer-Dougan, Illinois State University

Companion Website - Browne, 6/E
Browne
©2001 | Allyn & Bacon | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130894664 | ISBN-13: 9780130894663
URL:  http://www.prenhall.com/browne

Companion Website - Browne, 6/E
Browne
©2001 | Allyn & Bacon | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130894664 | ISBN-13: 9780130894663
URL:  http://www.prenhall.com/browne

Companion Website - Browne, 6/E
Browne
©2001 | Allyn & Bacon | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130894664 | ISBN-13: 9780130894663
URL:  http://www.prenhall.com/browne

Analyzing Literature: A Guide for Students (Valuepack item only), 2/E
McGee
©2002 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321093380 | ISBN-13: 9780321093387
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Building Bridges: The Allyn & Bacon Student Guide to Service-Learning
Hamner
©2002 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 128 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205319742 | ISBN-13: 9780205319749
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Common Philosophical Terms
Prentice Hall
©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 72 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 013189661X | ISBN-13: 9780131896611
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Diagnostic and Editing Tests and Exercises for 2007 English Handbooks, 9/E
Longman
©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 224 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321415248 | ISBN-13: 9780321415240
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Diagnostic and Edition Tests and Exericises for 2009 English Compositon Handbooks, 6/E
Zimmerman
©2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 258 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 020565536X | ISBN-13: 9780205655366
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Essential Study Card for Grammar and Documentation
Longman
©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Study Card; 10 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321463137 | ISBN-13: 9780321463135

InterWrite PRS RF (Personal Response System)
InterWrite PRS & Allyn & Bacon/Longman
©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Electronic Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205436951 | ISBN-13: 9780205436958

Interactive Guide to Newsweek
Wachtel
©1999 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 196 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321055284 | ISBN-13: 9780321055286
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Literacy Library Series: Academic Literacy, 2/E
Neeley
©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 216 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321183193 | ISBN-13: 9780321183194
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Literacy Library Series: Workplace Literacy (Valuepack item only), 2/E
Spilka
©2003 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321127374 | ISBN-13: 9780321127372

Longman Composition Study Site (Open Access)
Longman
©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Website | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205518281 | ISBN-13: 9780205518289
URL:  http://www.longmancomposition.com

Longman Editing Exercises (Valuepack item only), The
Ingalls
©2000 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205317928 | ISBN-13: 9780205317929
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Longman Editing Exercises Answer Key, 2/E
Ingalls & Moody
©2000 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 15 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205317979 | ISBN-13: 9780205317974
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Longman Guide to Service Learning
Kessler
©2003 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321127498 | ISBN-13: 9780321127495
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Longman Researcher's Journal, The (Valuepack item only)
Markus
©2002 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321095308 | ISBN-13: 9780321095305

Longman Test Bank for Study Skills, 3/E
Longman
©2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 109 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205666353 | ISBN-13: 9780205666355
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Longman Thea Study Guide
Harris
©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 192 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321272404 | ISBN-13: 9780321272409

Merriam Websters College Dictionary with CD-ROM, 11/E

©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper Bound w/CD-ROM | Instock
ISBN-10: 0877798095 | ISBN-13: 9780877798095

Model Research Papers from Across the Disciplines, 5/E
Lester
©1999 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 032104603X | ISBN-13: 9780321046031
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New American Webster Handy College Dictionary, The, 3/E
Penguin
©1998 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0451181662 | ISBN-13: 9780451181664

OXFORD AMERICAN DESK DICTIONARY&THESAURUS
OXFORD
©2003 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0425180689 | ISBN-13: 9780425180686

OXFORD ESSENTIAL THESAURUS
NONE
©2003 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0425164217 | ISBN-13: 9780425164211

Pearson Developmental Writing Power Point Package, Mosaics: Focusing on Essays
Christensen
©2011 | Allyn & Bacon | CD-ROM Only | Estimated Availability : 04/01/2010
ISBN-10: 0205739067 | ISBN-13: 9780205739066

Pearson Grammar Workbook, 3/E
Adkins
©2011 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 280 pp | Estimated Availability : 07/01/2010
ISBN-10: 0205739075 | ISBN-13: 9780205739073

Pearson Student Planner, The
McWhorter
©2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 112 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 020566301X | ISBN-13: 9780205663019

Pearson Textbook Reader, The, 3/E
Novins
©2011 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Estimated Availability : 01/15/2010
ISBN-10: 0205751180 | ISBN-13: 9780205751181

Philosophy Cafe Website (Open access)
Longman
©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Website | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321275853 | ISBN-13: 9780321275851
URL:  http://www.ablongman.com/philosophycafe

Preparing for the CLAST (Printed) (Valuepack item only), 7/E
Fowler
©1998 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321019504 | ISBN-13: 9780321019509

Preparing for the CUNY-ACT Reading and Writing Exam, 2/E
Ferretti & Levy
©2010 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 157 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205699367 | ISBN-13: 9780205699360
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Preparing for the CUNY-ACT Reading and Writing Test
Licklider
©2003 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 192 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321196082 | ISBN-13: 9780321196088
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Public Literacy, 2/E
Ervin
©2003 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321129989 | ISBN-13: 9780321129987
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Real Visual: A Guide to Composing and Analyzing with Images (Valuepack item only)
Anderson, Cooper, Lupton & Meeks
©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | CD-ROM Only | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321423089 | ISBN-13: 9780321423085

ResearchNavigator.com Guide
Allyn & Bacon & Barr
©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 48 pp | Out of Stock
ISBN-10: 020552396X | ISBN-13: 9780205523962

ResearchNavigator.com Guide
Allyn & Bacon
©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 48 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205517196 | ISBN-13: 9780205517190

ResearchNavigator.com Guide: English (Valuepack item only)
Branscomb & Trim
©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 80 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321496019 | ISBN-13: 9780321496010

Study Card for Grammar and Documentation
Longman
©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Study Card; 0 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321292030 | ISBN-13: 9780321292032
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Teaching in Progress: Theories, Practices, and Scenarios, 3/E
Moore
©2003 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321085647 | ISBN-13: 9780321085641

Test Gen Diagnostic and Editing Tests and Exercises to accompany 2009 Handbooks, 6/E
Zimmerman
©2009 | Allyn & Bacon | On-line Supplement | Out of Stock
ISBN-10: 0205655351 | ISBN-13: 9780205655359
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TestGen Computerized Test Bank for Diagnostic and Editing Tests and Exercises for 2006 English Handbooks
Longman
©2006 | Allyn & Bacon | CD-ROM Only | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321364988 | ISBN-13: 9780321364982
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TestGen Computerized Test Bank for Diagnostic and Editing Tests and Exercises for 2007 English Handbooks, 2/E
Longman
©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | CD-ROM Only | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321433238 | ISBN-13: 9780321433237
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The Pearson Editing Exercises Answer Key, 2/E
Ingalls & Moody
©2009 | Allyn & Bacon | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205666175 | ISBN-13: 9780205666171
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Thinking Through the Test: A Study Guide for the Florida College Basic Skills Exit Tests: Reading and Writing, 2/E
Henry & Markus
©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 240 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321276604 | ISBN-13: 9780321276605

Thinking Through the Test: A Study Guide for the Florida College Basic Skills Exit Tests: Reading and Writing, w/Answers
Henry & Markus
©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 328 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321277562 | ISBN-13: 9780321277565

Thinking Through the Test: A Study Guide for the Florida College Basic Skills Tests, Reading & Writing (without Answer Key), 3/E
Henry & Markus
©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 362 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321387406 | ISBN-13: 9780321387400

Thinking Through the Test: A Study Guide for the Florida College Basic Skills Tests, Reading (with Answer Key), 3/E
Henry & Markus
©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 176 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321387376 | ISBN-13: 9780321387370

Using Portfolios
McClelland
©2001 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321084128 | ISBN-13: 9780321084125
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What Every Student Should Know About Creating Portfolios
Eyman
©2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 48 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205572502 | ISBN-13: 9780205572502
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iClicker Classroom Response System
iClicker & Allyn & Bacon/Longman
©2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Electronic Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205594506 | ISBN-13: 9780205594504

Electronic Test Bank for Developmental Reading
Smith
©2000 | Allyn & Bacon | CD-ROM Only | Instock
ISBN-10: 032108179X | ISBN-13: 9780321081797
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LASSI (H & H Publishing, Inc.), 2/E
Longman
©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321446755 | ISBN-13: 9780321446756

Longman Planner (Valuepack Item Only), The, 4/E
McWhorter
©2000 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321045734 | ISBN-13: 9780321045737

Longman Reader's Journal, The, 6/E
McWhorter
©2002 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321088433 | ISBN-13: 9780321088437

Longman Reader's Portfolio and Student Planner
Longman
©2006 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 144 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321296109 | ISBN-13: 9780321296108

Longman Study Skills Website (Open access), 2/E
Longman
©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | On-line Supplement; 0 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321333721 | ISBN-13: 9780321333728
URL:  http://www.ablongman.com/studyskills

Longman Vocabulary Website (Open access)
Longman
©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | On-line Supplement; 0 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321331044 | ISBN-13: 9780321331045
URL:  http://www.ablongman.com/vocabulary

Printed Testbank for Developmental Reading
Addison-Wesley
©2001 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321085965 | ISBN-13: 9780321085962
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Study Card for Reading Skills
Longman
©2006 | Allyn & Bacon | Study Card; 0 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321338332 | ISBN-13: 9780321338334

Study Card for Vocabulary
Longman
©2006 | Allyn & Bacon | Study Card | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321318021 | ISBN-13: 9780321318022

Companion Website - Browne, 6/E
Browne
©2001 | Allyn & Bacon | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130894664 | ISBN-13: 9780130894663
URL:  http://www.prenhall.com/browne

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