Current issues and enduring questions

a guide to critical thinking and argument, with readings

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Sylvan Barnet, Hugo Adam Bedau
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Current issues and enduring questions

a guide to critical thinking and argument, with readings

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Extensive resource for argument, persuasive writing, and rigorous critical thinking.

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English
Pages
824

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Current issues and enduring questions: a guide to critical thinking and argument, with readings
2014, Bedford/St. Martins
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Table of Contents

Critical thinking
Critical reading: getting started
Critical reading: getting deeper into arguments
Visual rhetoric: images as arguments
Writing an analysis of an argument
Developing an argument of your own
Using sources
A philosopher's view : the Toulmin model
A logician's view : deduction, induction, fallacies
A psychologist's view : Rogerian argument
A rhetorician's view : rhetorical analysis of nontraditional texts
A debater's view: individual oral presentations and debate
Student loans : should some indebtedness be forgiven?
Are integrated devices safer than using handheld devices while driving?
The local food movement : is it a better way to eat?
The death penalty : is it ever justified?
Genetic modification of human beings : is it acceptable?
College education : what is its purpose?
Hydraulic fracturing : is fracking worth the environmental cost?
Drugs : should their sale and use be legalized?
Junk food : should the government regulate our intake?
Facebook : how has social networking changed how we relate to others?
Immigration: what is to be done?
Service : should the United States require young people to perform public service?
What is the ideal society?
How free is the will of the individual within society?
What is happiness?

Edition Notes

"With integrated media"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Published in
Boston
Copyright Date
2014

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
428
Library of Congress
BC177 .C86 2014, BC177.C86 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxiv, 824 pages
Number of pages
824

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Open Library
OL26881751M
ISBN 10
1457622602, 1457649985
ISBN 13
9781457622601, 9781457649981
LCCN
2014415342
OCLC/WorldCat
858919100

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