HU 260 Week 2 discussion

Questioning

The Questioning Toolkit identified 17 kinds of questions:

Essential question

Organizing question

Elaborating question

Divergent question

Subsidiary question

Probing question

Unanswerable question

Irrelevant question

Hypothetical question

Sorting and Sifting question

Inventive question

Telling question

Clarification question

Provocative question

Planning question

Strategic question

Irreverent question

Remember your last class when the instructor asked for questions?  Or the last time you went to a presentation with a question-and-answer session?

Describe the situation

What question did you find most helpful? Why? Which kind of question was it?

What question did you find least helpful? Why? Which kind of question was it?