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Critical thinking, reading, and writing : a brief guide to argument / Sylvan Barnet, and Hugo Bedau.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, c1999.Edition: 3rd editionDescription: xvi, 462 p. : 24 cmISBN:
  • 0312171536
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 160 23 BAR
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Contents

Part One. Critical Thinking and Reading
I. Critical Thinking
2. Critical Reading: Getting Started
3. Critical Reading: Getting Deeper into Arguments

Part Two. Critical Writing
4. Writing an Analysis of an Argument
5. Developing an Argument of your own
6. Using Sources

Part Three. Further Views on Arguments
7. A philosopher's view: The Toulmin Model
8. A logician's View: Deduction, Induction Fallacies
9. A Psychologist's view Rogerian Argument
10. A Lawyers View: Steps towards Civic Literacy
11. A Literary Critics view: Arguing about Literature

Part Four. A casebook on the State and the Individual
12. How Much Obedience to the State Does Conscience Demand?

Includes bibliographical references and indexes p. 455- 462

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