Reading and writing for civic literacy
Subtitle: the critical citizen's guide to argumentative rhetoric
By: Donald Lazere.
Series: Cultural politics & the promise of democracy
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 561
Subjects: Persuasion (Rhetoric); Citizenship -- United States.; Civil society -- United States.; Critical thinking -- United States.; English language -- United States -- Rhetoric.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An appeal to students; title: What is an argument? what is a good argument?; title: Definitions and criteria of critical thinking; title: Writing argumentative papers; title: Viewpoint, bias, and fairness : from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty; title: Questioning culturally conditioned assumptions; title: Overgeneralization, stereotyping and prejudice; title: Questioning centrisms, authoritarianism, rationalization, compartmentalization; title: Semantics in rhetoric and critical thinking; title: Avoiding oversimplification and recognizing complexity; title: Some key terms in logic and argumentation; title: Logical and rhetorical fallacies; title: Causal analysis; title: Uses and misuses of emotional appeal; title: Thinking critically about political rhetoric; title: Thinking critically about mass media; title: Special interests, conflict of interest, special pleading; title: Varieties of propaganda; title: Advertising and hype; title: A case study : analyzing arguments about the rich, the poor and the middle class; title: Assignments for collecting and evaluating opposing viewpoints; title: Documentation; title: Research resources.