عنوان

Current issues and enduring questions :

(Number (ISBN

1457622602

(Number (ISBN

9781457622601

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Title Proper

Current issues and enduring questions :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a guide to critical thinking and argument, with readings /

First Statement of Responsibility

[edited by] Sylvan Barnet, professor of English, Tufts University, Hugo Bedau, professor of philosophy, Tufts University

Edition Statement

Tenth edition

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Boston :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Bedford/St. Martins,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2014]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxxiv, 824 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

"With integrated media"--Cover

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Text of Note

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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Text of Note

Extensive resource for argument, persuasive writing, and rigorous critical thinking

Logic

Reasoning

Religion

Social ethics

Class number

Book number

Barnet, Sylvan

Bedau, Hugo Adam

Date of Transaction

20171009025942.0

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rda

Electronic name

[Book]

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