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Barnet S., Bedau H. Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing: A Brief Guide to Argument

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Barnet S., Bedau H. Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing: A Brief Guide to Argument
Seventh Edition. — Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011. — 588 p.
Part One: Critical Thinking and Reading.
Critical Thinking.
Critical Reading: Getting Started.
Critical Reading: Getting Deeper into Arguments.
Visual Rhetoric: Images as Arguments.
Part Two: Critical Writing.
Writing an Analysis of an Argument.
Developing an Argument of Your Own.
Using Sources.
Part Three: Further Views on Argument.
A Philosopher’s View: The Toulmin Model.
A Logician’s View: Deduction, Induction, Fallacies.
A Moralist’s View: Ways of Thinking Ethically.
A Lawyer’s View: Steps toward Civic Literacy.
A Psychologist’s View: Rogerian Argument.
A Literary Critic’s View: Arguing about Literature.
A Debater’s View: Individual Oral Presentations and Debate.
Part Four: A Casebook on The State and the Individual.
What Is the Ideal Society?
Index of Authors and Titles.
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