Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A Brief Guide to Argument

1178 Pages·2020·85.498 MB·English

by  Sylvan Barnet, Hugo Bedau, John O'Hara

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Text reads as follows:
Preface vii
How Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing Supports WPA Outcomes for First-Year
Composition xv
Part One, Critical Thinking and Reading 1.
1. Critical Thinking, 3
2. Critical Reading: Getting Started, 33
3. Critical Reading: Getting Deeper into Arguments, 75
4. Visual Rhetoric: Thinking about Images as Arguments, 131
Part Two, Critical Writing 173.
5. Writing an Analysis of an Argument, 175
6. Developing an Argument of Your Own, 205
7. Using Sources, 242
Part Three, Further Views on Argument, 315
8. A Philosopher’s View: The Toulmin Model, 317
9. A Logician’s View: Deduction, Induction, and Fallacies, 328
10. A Psychologist’s View: Rogerian Argument, 363
11. A Literary Critic’s View: Arguing about Literature, 375
12. A Debater’s View: Oral Presentations and Debate, 402
Part Four, Casebooks on Education and the Ideal Society, 411
13. A College Education: What Is Its Purpose? 413
14. What Is the Ideal Society? 428
Index of Authors, Titles, and Terms 471
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A note about the cover.
Good arguments approach an issue from different angles and consider multiple
viewpoints. The colorful cover artwork, Boogie Woogie by Torben Giehler, combines
paint and computer imagery to reflect the intersection of ideas and perspectives critical
thinkers must consider when writing strong arguments.
Critical Thinking, Reading, and
Writing
A Brief Guide to Argument
TENTH EDITION
Critical Thinking, Reading, and
Writing
A Brief Guide to Argument
SYLVAN BARNET
Professor of English, Late of Tu�s University
HUGO BEDAU
Professor of Philosophy, Late of Tu�s University
JOHN O’HARA
Professor of Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing, Stockton University
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Preface
He who knows only his own side of the cause knows little.
— JOHN STUART MILL
Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A Brief Guide to Argument is a
book about reading other people’s arguments and writing your own
arguments — and it is also a collection of dozens of selections,
ranging from Plato to the present, with a strong emphasis on critical
thinking, reading, and writing about current issues.
Since the first edition, the quotation above has reflected the view of
argument that underlies this book: In writing an essay, an author
engages in a serious effort to discover his or her own ideas and,
having found them, to contribute to a multisided conversation. The
writer is not setting out to trounce an opponent. That is partly why
we avoid expressions such as “marshaling evidence,” “attacking an
opponent,” and “defending a thesis.” Edmund Burke once wrote,
“Our antagonist is our helper,” and we agree that views and
perspectives contrary to our own can help us sharpen our own
thinking and writing. True, on television and social media we see
pundits on the right and le� who have made up their minds and who
are indifferent or hostile to others’ analysis and opinions. But in an