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Title Critical thinking, reading, and writing : a brief guide to argument / [edited by] Sylvan Barnet, Hugo Bedau.

Imprint Boston : Bedford/St. Martins, ©2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  808.042 C869 2008    ---  Available
Edition 6th ed.
Description xxiii, 556 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Includes indexes.
Contents 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?
Subject English language -- Rhetoric.
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
Critical thinking.
Reasoning.
Critical thinking. (OCoLC)fst00883692
English language -- Rhetoric. (OCoLC)fst00911581
Persuasion (Rhetoric) (OCoLC)fst01058895
Reasoning. (OCoLC)fst01091282
Added Author Barnet, Sylvan.
Bedau, Hugo Adam.
ISBN 0312459874
9780312459871

 
    
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