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" Current issues and enduring questions : "
[edited by] Sylvan Barnet, professor of English, Tufts University, Hugo Bedau, professor of philosophy, Tufts University
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644007
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Current issues and enduring questions : : a guide to critical thinking and argument, with readings /\ [edited by] Sylvan Barnet, professor of English, Tufts University, Hugo Bedau, professor of philosophy, Tufts University
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Tenth edition
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Boston :: Bedford/St. Martins,, [2014]
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xxxiv, 824 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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9781457622601
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: 1457622602
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| Notes
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"With integrated media"--Cover
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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| Contents
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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: Current issues: Occasions for debate -- The Equal Rights Amendment: is it still needed? -- Genetic modification of human beings: is it acceptable? -- Obesity: who is responsible for our weight? -- Racial profiling: should airports use it to screen passengers? -- Romantic relationships between faculty and students: should colleges prohibit them? -- Single-sex classrooms: do they offer advantages? -- Part Five: Current issues: Casebooks -- College education: what is its purpose? -- The death penalty: is it ever justified? -- Drugs: should their sale and use be legalized? -- Going green: what must be done? -- Immigration: what is to be done? -- Sexual harassment: is there any doubt about what it is? -- Marriage: what is its future? -- Reproductive rights: what are the limits? -- Service: a duty? A benefit? Or both, or perhaps neither? -- Testing: what value do tests have? -- Torture: is it ever justifiable? -- Part Six: Enduring questions: Essays, a story, poems, and a play -- What is the ideal society? -- How free is the will of the individual within society? -- What is happiness?
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Extensive resource for argument, persuasive writing, and rigorous critical thinking
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Reasoning
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Logic
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Social ethics
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Religion
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BC177.C86 2014
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Barnet, Sylvan
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Bedau, Hugo Adam
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