Sylvan Barnet - Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A Brief Guide to Argument

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Preface vii

How Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing Supports WPA Outcomes for First-Year Composition xv

Part One, Critical Thinking and Reading 1.

1. Critical Thinking, 3

2. Critical Reading: Getting Started, 33

3. Critical Reading: Getting Deeper into Arguments, 75

4. Visual Rhetoric: Thinking about Images as Arguments, 131

Part Two, Critical Writing 173.

5. Writing an Analysis of an Argument, 175

6. Developing an Argument of Your Own, 205

7. Using Sources, 242

Part Three, Further Views on Argument, 315

8. A Philosophers View: The Toulmin Model, 317

9. A Logicians View: Deduction, Induction, and Fallacies, 328

10. A Psychologists View: Rogerian Argument, 363

11. A Literary Critics View: Arguing about Literature, 375

12. A Debaters View: Oral Presentations and Debate, 402

Part Four, Casebooks on Education and the Ideal Society, 411

13. A College Education: What Is Its Purpose? 413

14. What Is the Ideal Society? 428

Index of Authors, Titles, and Terms 471

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A Brief Guide to Argument

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A Brief Guide to Argument

• SYLVAN BARNET
• Professor of English, Late of Tufts University

• HUGO BEDAU
• Professor of Philosophy, Late of Tufts University

• JOHN OHARA
• Professor of Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing, Stockton University

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He who knows only his own side of the cause knows little.

JOHN STUART MILL

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A Brief Guide to Argument is a book about reading other peoples arguments and writing your own arguments and it is also a collection of dozens of selections, ranging from Plato to the present, with a strong emphasis on critical thinking, reading, and writing about current issues.

Since the first edition, the quotation above has reflected the view of argument that underlies this book: In writing an essay, an author engages in a serious effort to discover his or her own ideas and, having found them, to contribute to a multisided conversation. The writer is not setting out to trounce an opponent. That is partly why we avoid expressions such as marshaling evidence, attacking an opponent, and defending a thesis. Edmund Burke once wrote, Our antagonist is our helper, and we agree that views and perspectives contrary to our own can help us sharpen our own thinking and writing. True, on television and social media we see pundits on the right and left who have made up their minds and who are indifferent or hostile to others analysis and opinions. But in an academic community, and indeed in our daily lives, we learn by listening to others and by questioning our own ideas.