pt. 1. Critical thinking and reading. Critical thinking ; Critical reading : getting started ; Critical reading : getting deeper into arguments ; Visual rhetoric : images as arguments -- pt. 2. Critical writing. Writing an analysis of an argument ; Developing an argument of your own ; Using sources -- pt. 3. Further views on argument. A philosopher's view : The Toulmin model ; A logician's view : deduction, induction, fallacies ; A moralist's view : ways of thinking ethically ; A lawyer's view : steps toward civic literacy ; A psychologist's view : Rogerian argument ; A literary critic's view : arguing about literature ; A forensic view : oral presentation and debate -- pt. 4. A casebook on the state and the individual. What is the ideal society?
