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Can you recommend the best way to pose a question?

By HCCA/SCCE Social Network posted 12-01-2008 12:37 PM

  
I was asked: "Can you recommend the best way to pose a question?" 
 
I find two sentence questions do not get many answers.   
 
I would suggest including your thinking, your dilemma, and what problem you are trying to solve.   
 
Then ask for thoughts, feedback, and suggestions.   
 
I find with this group of compliance professionals you can state your opinions and it will not sway them from expressing their own honest opinion.  
 
In addition you can double the response by having your picture in your profile.
 
What are other people’s thoughts?
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Karen Mather
03-20-2009 06:40 PM

Perhaps use the method of argumentation that we teach in IT ethics: I start with my 'position', decompose it, justify each component, thereby validating my position. Then I ask for counter arguments.
For example, my post might be: "IT Codes of Ethics can save lives" then I'd state that a) professional responsibility for IT people is defined in such codes as the IEEE Code of Ethics, and b) fatal disasters like the Therac case would have been avoided if the IT practitioners had been more professionally responsible. So I conclude that my proposition is justified, and ask my readers whether they would agree.