Critical thinking, reading, and writing : a brief guide to argument /
Critical thinking, reading, and writing : a brief guide to argument /
[edited by] Sylvan Barnet, Hugo Bedau.
- Fifth edition.
- xxii, 584 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes indexes.
Pt. One. Critical thinking and reading. 1. Critical thinking -- 2. Critical readings: getting started -- 3. Critical reading: getting deeper into arguments -- 4. Visual rhetoric: images and arguments -- Pt. Two. Critical writing. 5. Writing an analysis of an argument -- 6. Developing an argument of your own -- 7. Using sources -- Pt. Three. Further views on argument. 8. A philosopher-s view: The Toulmin model -- 9. A logician's view: deduction, induction, fallacies -- 10. A moralist's view: ways of thinking ethically -- 11. A lawyer's view: steps toward civic literacy -- 12. A psychologist's view: Rogerian argument -- 13. A literary critic's view: arguing about literature -- 14. A forensic view: oral presentation and debate -- Pt. Four. A casebook on the state and the individual. 15. What is the ideal society?.
0312412754 9780312412753
English language--Rhetoric
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
Critical thinking
Reasoning
808.042
Includes indexes.
Pt. One. Critical thinking and reading. 1. Critical thinking -- 2. Critical readings: getting started -- 3. Critical reading: getting deeper into arguments -- 4. Visual rhetoric: images and arguments -- Pt. Two. Critical writing. 5. Writing an analysis of an argument -- 6. Developing an argument of your own -- 7. Using sources -- Pt. Three. Further views on argument. 8. A philosopher-s view: The Toulmin model -- 9. A logician's view: deduction, induction, fallacies -- 10. A moralist's view: ways of thinking ethically -- 11. A lawyer's view: steps toward civic literacy -- 12. A psychologist's view: Rogerian argument -- 13. A literary critic's view: arguing about literature -- 14. A forensic view: oral presentation and debate -- Pt. Four. A casebook on the state and the individual. 15. What is the ideal society?.
0312412754 9780312412753
English language--Rhetoric
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
Critical thinking
Reasoning
808.042