Critical thinking, reading, and writing
Subtitle: a brief guide to argument
By: Sylvan Barnet, professor of English, Tufts University, Hugo Bedau, professor of Philosophy, Tufts University
Contributors: Bedau, Hugo Adam, author
Edition: Eighth edition. Evaluation copy.
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 628
ISBN-13: 9781457661723; 9781457649974
Subjects: Critical thinking; Persuasion (Rhetoric); Rhetoric; Reasoning; English language
Description: "Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing is a compact but complete guide to critical thinking and argumentation. This versatile text includes comprehensive coverage of classic and contemporary approaches to argument, from Aristotle to Toulmin to a new chapter on rhetorical analysis of pop culture texts, as well as 35 readings and a casebook on the state and individual." -- from back cover.
Notes: Contains Critical thinking, reading, and writing (xxxi, 525 pages) and Resources for teaching (ix, 63 pages) in one volume with two paginations; Resources for teaching located between pages 174 and 175.

Includes bibliographical references (pages, 514-517, 526) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Critical thinking; title: Critical reading : getting started; title: Critical reading : getting deeper into arguments; title: Visual rhetoric : images as arguments; title: Writing an analysis of an argument; title: Developing an argument of your own; title: Using sources; title: A philosopher's view : the Toulmin model; title: A logician's view : deduction, induction, fallacies; title: A psychologist's view : Rogerian argument; title: A rhetorician's view : rhetorical analysis of nontraditional texts; title: A literary critic's view : arguing about literature; title: A debater's view : individual oral presentations and debate ; a moralist's view : ways of thinking ethically ; a lawyer's view : steps toward civic literacy; title: What is the ideal society?