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" Current issues and enduring questions : "
Sylvan Barnet, Hugo Bedau, John O'Hara.
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BL
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844498
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Barnet, Sylvan
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Current issues and enduring questions : : a guide to critical thinking and argument, with readings /\ Sylvan Barnet, Hugo Bedau, John O'Hara.
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Eleventh edition.
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Boston :: Bedford/St. Martins,, [2017]
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, ©2017
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xxxiii, 776 pages :: illustrations (some color) ;; 23 cm
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1319035477
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: 9781319035471
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Critical thinking -- Critical reading: getting started -- Critical reading: getting deeper into arguments -- Visual rhetoric: thinking about images as arguments -- Writing an analysis of an argument -- Developing an argument of your own -- Using sources -- A philosopher's view : the Toulmin model -- A logician's view : deduction, induction, fallacies -- A psychologist's view : Rogerian argument -- A literary critic's view: arguing about literature -- A debater's view: individual oral presentations and debate -- Student loans : should some indebtedness be forgiven? -- Technology in the classroom: useful or distracting? -- The local food movement : is it a better way to eat? -- The current state of childhood: is "helicopter parenting" or "free-range childhood" better for kids? -- Genetic modification of human beings : is it acceptable? -- Mandatory military service: should it be required? -- College education : what is its purpose? -- Race and police violence: how do we slve the problem? -- Junk food : should the government regulate our intake? -- Online versus IRL: how has social networking changed how we relate to one another? -- Immigration: what is to be done? -- The carceral state: why are so many Americans in jail? -- American exceptionalism: how should the United States teach about its past? -- What is the ideal society? -- How free is the will of the individual within society? -- What is happiness?
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"Learn the persuasive writing skills you need to succeed. The collaborative effort of a professor of English, a professor of philosophy, and a professor of critical thinking, 'Current issues and enduring questions' will help you to make solid arguments, write persuasively, and learn the rigorous critical thinking skills you'll need in order to succeed in college. This text will give you the tools necessary to write with logic and elegance, and it will introduce you to topics that are worth arguing about." -- book cover.
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Logic.
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Reasoning.
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Religion.
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Social ethics.
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Logic.
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Reasoning.
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Religion.
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Social ethics.
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153.43
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BC177.C86 2017
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Bedau, Hugo Adam
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O'Hara, John,1974-
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