The Oxford guide to effective argument and critical thinking
By: Colin Swatridge
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780199671724
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Critical thinking; Debates and debating; Rhetoric; Reasoning; Logic
Other titles: Effective argument and critical thinking
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.What do you do when you argue a case?; title: Claims and conclusions; title: Reasons and inference; title: Titles as questions; title: Support for a conclusion; title: 2.How will you make yourself clear?; title: Vagueness and definition; title: Assumptions; title: Ambiguity and conflation; title: Ordering and indicating; title: 3.What case have others made?; title: Counter-claims; title: Counter-argument; title: Selection and evaluation of sources; title: Reputation and expertise; title: 4.What do you make of these arguments?; title: Overstatement and straw man; title: Causes and conditions; title: Appeals to the past; title: Appeals to feelings; title: 5.How will you support your case?; title: Examples and anecdotes; title: Facts and factual claims; title: Statistical evidence; title: Credibility and corroboration; title: 6.How much can you be sure about?; title: Certainty and plausibility; title: Deductive argument; title: Conditional claims; title: Logic and truth; title: 7.How much is a matter of belief?; title: Point of view; title: Belief and opinion; title: Bias and neutrality; title: Values and principles; title: 8.Are you over-simplifying the issue?; title: Ad hominem and tu quoque ploys; title: False dichotomy; title: Over-generalization; title: Analogy and slippery slope; title: 9.Does your argument hang together?; title: Contradiction; title: Consistency and coherence; title: Changing the subject; title: Begging the question; title: 10.How will you lay out your case?; title: Structure of reasoning; title: Intermediate conclusion; title: Alternative inferences; title: Quotation and referencing.