From Critical Thinking to Argument is a brief but thorough guide to argument at a great value. This versatile text gives students strategies for critical thinking, reading, and writing and makes argument concepts clear through its treatment of classic and modern approaches to argument, including Aristotelian, Toulmin, and Rogerian argument, as well as visual rhetoric. For today’s increasingly visual learners who are challenged to separate what’s real from what’s not, new activities and visual flowcharts support information literacy, and an appendix of practical Sentence Guides helps students incorporate the moves of academic writers into their own arguments. With just eighteen readings, this affordable guide can stand alone or complement an anthology.
Author(s): Sylvan Barnet, Hugo Bedau, John O'Hara
Edition: 6
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Year: 2020
Language: English
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Cover
Preface
Contents
Chapter 1: Critical Thinking
THINKING THROUGH AN ISSUE
CRITICAL THINKING AT WORK: FROM A CLUSTER TO A SHORT ESSAY
GENERATING IDEAS: WRITING AS A WAY OF THINKING
AN ESSAY FOR GENERATING IDEAS
A SHORT ESSAY CALLING FOR CRITICAL THINKING
EXAMINING ASSUMPTIONS
Chapter 2: Critical Reading: Getting Started
ACTIVE READING
SUMMARIZING AND PARAPHRASING
PATCHWRITING AND PLAGIARISM
STRATEGIES FOR SUMMARIZING
ESSAYS FOR ANALYSIS
Chapter 3: Critical Reading: Getting Deeper into Arguments
PERSUASION, ARGUMENT, AND RHETORICAL APPEALS
REASON, RATIONALIZATION, AND CONFIRMATION BIAS
TYPES OF REASONING
SOME PROCEDURES IN ARGUMENT
NONRATIONAL APPEALS
DOES ALL WRITING CONTAIN ARGUMENTS?
AN EXAMPLE: AN ARGUMENT AND A LOOK AT THE WRITER'S STRATEGIES
Chapter 4: Visual Rhetoric: Thinking about Images as Arguments
USES OF VISUAL IMAGES
SEEING VERSUS LOOKING: READING ADVERTISEMENTS
LEVELS OF IMAGES
DOCUMENTING REALITY: READING PHOTOGRAPHS
ACCOMMODATING, RESISTING, AND NEGOTIATING THE MEANING OF IMAGES
ARE SOME IMAGES NOT FIT TO BE SHOWN?: POLITICS AND PICTURES
WRITING ABOUT POLITICAL CARTOONS
AN EXAMPLE: A STUDENT'S ESSAY ANALYZING IMAGES
VISUALS AS AIDS TO CLARITY: MAPS, GRAPHS, AND PIE CHARTS
USING VISUALS IN YOUR OWN PAPER
Chapter 5: Writing an Analysis of an Argument
ANALYZING AN ARGUMENT
AN ARGUMENT, ITS ELEMENTS, AND A STUDENT'S ANALYSIS OF THE ARGUMENT
Chapter 6: Developing an Argument of Your Own
PLANNING AN ARGUMENT
DRAFTING AND REVISING AN ARGUMENT
PEER REVIEW
A STUDENT'S ESSAY, FROM ROUGH NOTES TO FINAL VERSION
Chapter 7: Using Sources
WHY USE SOURCES?
CHOOSING A TOPIC
FINDING SOURCES
EVALUATING SOURCES
PERFORMING YOUR OWN PRIMARY RESEARCH
SYNTHESIZING SOURCES
TAKING NOTES
A NOTE ON PLAGIARIZING
COMPILING AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
QUOTING FROM SOURCES
DOCUMENTATION
MLA FORMAT: CITATIONS WITHIN THE TEXT
MLA FORMAT: THE LIST OF WORKS CITED
APA FORMAT: CITATIONS WITHIN THE TEXT
APA FORMAT: THE LIST OF REFERENCES
AN ANNOTATED STUDENT RESEARCH PAPER IN MLA FORMAT
AN ANNOTATED STUDENT RESEARCH PAPER IN APA FORMAT
Chapter 8: A Philosopher's View: The Toulmin Model
COMPONENTS OF THE TOULMIN MODEL
PUTTING THE TOULMIN METHOD TO WORK: RESPONDING TO AN ARGUMENT
THINKING WITH THE TOULMIN METHOD
Chapter 9: A Logician's View: Deduction, Induction, and Fallacies
USING FORMAL LOGIC FOR CRITICAL THINKING
DEDUCTION
INDUCTION
FALLACIES
Chapter 10: A Psychologist's View: Rogerian Argument
R0GERIAN ARGUMENT: AN INTRODUCTION
Appendix: Sentence Guides for Academic Writers
Text Credits
Index
