Critical thinking, reading, and writing : a brief guide to argument / [edited by] Sylvan Barnet, Hugo Bedau.
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TextPublisher: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Edition: Fifth editionDescription: xxii, 584 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0312412754
- 9780312412753
- 808.042 22
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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?.
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