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Summary Table of Contents

This concise, accessible text teaches how to write logical, cohesive arguments and how to evaluate the arguments of others. Key Benefits: Integrating writing skills with critical thinking skills, this practical book teaches how to draw logical inferences, identify premises and conclusions and use language precisely. Readers also learn how to identify fallacies and to distinguish between inductive and deductive reasoning. Ideal for any composition class that emphasizes argument, this text includes coverage of writing style and rhetoric, logic, l... MORE

Guide to Readings

xiii

Preface

xvi

Thinking and Writing---A Critical Connection

(26)

Thinking Made Visible

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(1)

The Power of Writing Persuasively

(2)

The Advent of E-Mail

(1)

Critical Thinking

(7)

Critical Thinking as Self-Defense

(1)

An Open Mind---Examining Your World View

(4)

Media Literacy

(2)

Audience and Purpose

(1)

Writing Assignment 1 Considering Your Audience and Purpose

(1)

Writing as a Process

(9)

Strategies for Generating Ideas

(1)

The First Draft

(1)

The Time to Be Critical

(1)

One Writer's Process

(1)

Reason, Intuition, Imagination, and Metaphor

(4)

Writing Assignment 2 Your Writing Process

(1)

He or She?

(1)

What You Can Expect from This Book

(1)

More Than One Approach

(1)

Collaboration

(1)

Sharpening Sentence Skills and Increasing Coherence

(1)

Enjoying the Challenge of Thinking and Writing

(2)

Summary

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Inference---Critical Thought

(27)

What Is an Inference?

(2)

How Reliable is an Inference?

(2)

What Is a Fact?

(2)

Facts and Journalism

(2)

What Is a Judgment?

(5)

Achieving a Balance Between Inference and Facts

(4)

Facts Only

(1)

Selecting Facts

(1)

Inferences Only

(1)

Reading Critically

(1)

Writing Assignment 3 Reconstructing the Lost Tribe

(3)

Making Inferences---Analyzing Images

(4)

Making Inferences---Writing About Fiction

(2)

Writing Assignment 4 Interpreting Fiction

(3)

Summary

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

The Structure of Argument

(27)

Premises and Conclusions

(1)

Distinguishing Between Premises and Conclusions

(1)

Standard Form

(3)

Ambiguous Argument Structure

(2)

Writing Assignment 5 Creating a Political Handout

(1)

Standard Form, Essay Organization, and Revision

(1)

Writing Assignment 6 Responding to an Editorial

(1)

Argument and Explanation---Distinctions

(4)

Logical Relationships Between Ideas---Joining Words and Coherence

(3)

Choice of Joining Words

(2)

Revising for Coherence

(1)

Hidden Assumptions in Argument

(10)

Dangers of Hidden Assumptions

(1)

Hidden Assumptions and Standard Form

(4)

Hidden Assumptions and Audience Awareness

(1)

Summary

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Written Argument

(36)

Focusing Your Topic

(6)

The Issue

(1)

The Question at Issue

(1)

The Thesis

(2)

Two Kinds of Thesis Statements

(2)

Shaping a Written Argument---Rhetorical Strategies

(3)

The Introduction

(1)

The Development of Your Argument

(1)

How Many Premises Should an Argument Have?

(1)

The Conclusion

(1)

A Dialectical Approach to Argument

(8)

Addressing Counterarguments

(1)

How Much Counterargument?

(1)

Refutation and Concession

(1)

Rogerian Strategy

(5)

When There Is No Other Side

(1)

Logical Joining of Contrasting and Concessive Ideas

(2)

The Concessive Sentence

(1)

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