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| Preface | |
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| Critical Thinking and Writing | |
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| Critical Thinking | |
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| Thinking about Drivers' Licenses and Photographic Identification | |
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| Thinking About Another Issue Concerning Drivers' Licenses: Imagination, Analysis, Evaluation | |
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| Thinking about Student Evaluations of their Professors | |
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| Idea Prompt: Visualizing Pros and Cons | |
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| Writing as a Way of Thinking | |
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| Getting Ideas | |
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| Idea Prompt: Understanding Classical Topics | |
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| A Checklist for Critical Thinking | |
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| A Short Essay Illustrating Critical Thinking | |
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| The Undercover Parent | |
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| Letters of Response by Carol Weston, Jan Brotman, and Marissa Isaak | |
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| A Checklist for Evaluating Letters of Response | |
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| Examining Assumptions | |
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| A Checklist for Examining Assumptions | |
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| Should We Save the Jerboa? | |
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| Five Exercises in Critical Thinking | |
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| Critical Reading: Getting Started | |
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| Active Reading | |
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| Summarizing and Paraphrasing | |
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| A Note about Paraphrase and Plagiarism | |
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| Last Words (Almost) about Summarizing | |
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| Susan Jacoby, A First Amendment Junkie | |
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| Summarizing Jacoby, Paragraph by Paragraph | |
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| A Checklist for Getting Started | |
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| You're 16, You're Beautiful and You're a Voter | |
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| Exercise: Examining Paragraphs | |
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| Letters of Response by Betty Agard, Robert Epstein, Delia McQuade Emmons, and Amanda Bergson-Shilcock | |
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| (student essay), Why the Pledge of Allegiance Should Be Revised | |
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| A Casebook for Critical Reading: Should Some Kinds of Speech be Censored? | |
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| Let's Put Pornography Back in the Closet | |
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| On Racist Speech | |
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| Protecting Freedom of Expression on the Campus | |
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| Douse the Online Flamers | |
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| Thinking Further about Freedom of Expression, Cyberbullying, and Facebook | |
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| Exercise: Letter to the Editor | |
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| Critical Reading: Getting Deeper into Arguments | |
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| Persuasion, Argument, Dispute | |
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| Reason versus Rationalization | |
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| Some Procedures in Argument | |
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| Definition | |
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| Idea Prompt: Ways to Give Definitions | |
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| A Checklist for Evaluation Statistical Evidence | |
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| Nonrational Appeals | |
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| Does All Writing Contain Arguments? | |
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| A Checklist for Analyzing an Argument | |
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| An Example: An Argument and a Look at the Writer's Strategies | |
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| George F. Will, Being Green at Ben and Jerry's | |
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| George F. Will's Strategies | |
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| Arguments for Analysis | |
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| When "Identity" Politics is Rational | |
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| If Poison Gas Can Go, Why Not Nukes? | |
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| Gloria Jim�©nez (student essay), Against the Odds, and Against the Common Good | |