Monday, April 9, 2012

How to Ask a Question - Innovations - The Chronicle of Higher Education

How to Ask a Question

March 30, 2012, 11:45 am

By Peter Wood

Last Wednesday I attended a debate at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, at which three men engaged in a lively, literate, and deeply-informed exchange. After they finished and the moderator opened the floor for questions, the usual thing happened. The questioners by and large had no questions. Instead they offered up prolix piles of words that led nowhere in particular. Some sought to show off what they mistook as their own superior knowledge. Others scolded. A few got lost in their own labyrinths.

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