Questioning Techniques And Tactics

This handbook for practitioners provides more than one hundred techniques for overcoming the defenses of a hostile witness at deposition & trial. The work analyzes how to approach the witness who invokes the Fifth Amendment & presents new techniques of cross examination & witness control.

This book focuses on questioning techniques and strategies teachers may employ to make the difference between active and passive learning in the classroom. There are nine chapters: (1) Why Questions? (Ambrose A. Clegg, Jr.); (2) Review of Research on Questioning Techniques (Meredith D. Gall and Tom Rhody); (3) The Multidisciplinary World of Questioning (J. T. Dillon); (4) What Kind of Question Is That? (Roger T. Cunningham); (5) Using Wait Time To Stimulate Inquiry (Mary Budd Rowe); (6) Effective Questions and Questioning: A Classroom Application (William W. Wilen); (7) Discussion Strategies and Tactics (Ronald T. Hyman); (8) Students as Key Questioners (Francis P. Hunkins); and (9) Improving Teachers' Questions and Questioning: Research Informs Practice (William W. Wilen). (JD)

John Hayes examines the nature of interpersonal skills - the goal-directed behaviours that we use in face-to-face interactions in order to achieve desired outcomes.

Revised, extended and updated, this edition will continue as the core textbook for students of interpersonal communication as well as for professional groups such as counsellors, doctors, nurses, social workers and psychologists.