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| Preface | |
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| Critical Thinking and Reading | |
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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: | |
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| 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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| Letter of Response by Carol Weston | |
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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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| A First Amendment Junkie | |
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| 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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| Exercises 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 Evaluating 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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| Being Green at Ben and Jerry's | |
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| George F. Wills'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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| (Student essay), Against the Odds, and Against the Common Good | |
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| (Student essay), It's Hard Enough Being Me | |
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| The Harmful Myth of Asian Superiority | |
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| Just Take Away Their Guns | |
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| Death's Waiting List | |
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| Letters of Response by Dorothy H. Hayes, Charles B. Fruit, and Michelle Goodwin | |
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| Hiding in Plain Sight | |
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| Visual Rhetoric: Images as Arguments | |
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| Some Uses of Images | |
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| Appeals to the Eye | |
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| Are Some Images Not Fit to Be Shown? | |
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| Politics and Pictures | |
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| Exercises: Thinking about Images | |
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| Reading Advertisements | |
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| A Checklist for Analyzing Images (Especially Advertisements) | |
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| Writing About a Political Cartoon | |
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| Idea Prompt: Analysis of a Political Cartoon | |
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| A Checklist for Analyzing Political Cartoons | |
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| (Student essay), Pledging Nothing? | |
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| Visuals as Aids to Clarity: Maps, Graphs, Tables, and Pie Charts | |
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| A Checklist for Charts and Graphs | |
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| A Note On Using Visuals in Your Own Paper | |
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| A Note On Formatting Your Paper: Document Design | |
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| Additional Images for Analysis | |
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| The Boston Photographs | |
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| Critical Writing | |
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| Writing an Analysis of an Argument | |
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| Analyzing An Argument | |
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| Idea Prompt: Drawing Conclusions and Implying Proof | |
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| An Argument, Its Elements, and a Student's Analysis of the Argument | |
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| For Environmental Balance, Pick Up a Rifle | |
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| (Student essay) , Tracking Kristof | |
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| An Analysis of the Student's Analysis | |
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| A Checklist for Writing an Analysis of an Argument | |
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| Arguments for Analysis | |
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| Bring Back Flogging | |
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| Violent Media Is Good for Kids | |
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| Is It Possible To Be a Conscientious Meat Eater? | |
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| Animal Liberation | |
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| A Modest Proposal | |
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| Developing an Argument of Your Own | |
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| Planning, Drafting, and Revising An Argument | |
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| A Checklist for a Thesis Statement | |
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| A Checklist for Imagining an Audience | |
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| Idea Promt: Using Transitions in Argument | |
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| A Checklist for Attending to the Needs of the Audience | |
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| Peer Review | |
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| A Peer Review Checklist for a Draft of An Argument | |
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| A Student's Essay, From Rough Notes to Final Version | |
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| Why I Don't Spare "Spare Change" | |
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| The Essay Analyzed | |
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| Exercise | |
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| Using Sources | |
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| Why Use Sources? | |
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| Choosing a Topic | |
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| Finding Material | |
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| Finding Quality Information on the Web | |
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| A Word about Wikipedia | |
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| Finding Articles Using Library Databases | |
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| Locating Books | |
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| Interviewing Peers and Local Authorities | |
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| Evaluating Your Sources | |
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| A Checklist for Evaluating Print Sources | |
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| Taking Notes | |
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| A Checklist for Evaluating Electronic Sources | |
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| A Note On Plagiarizing, Paraphrasing, and Using Common Knowledge | |
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| A Checklist for Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Compiling An Annotated Bibliography | |
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| Writing the Paper | |
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| Quoting From Sources | |
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| Incorporating Your Reading into Your Thinking: The Art and Science of Synthesis | |
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| The Use and Abuse of Quotations | |
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| How to Quote | |
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| A Checklist for Using Quotations Rather than Summaries | |
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| Documentation | |
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| Idea Prompt: Signal Phrases | |
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| A Note on Footnotes (and Endnotes) | |
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| MLA Format: Citations within the Text | |
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| MLA Format: The List of Works Cited | |
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| APA Format: Citations within the Text | |
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| APA Format: The List of References | |
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| A Checklist for Papers Using Sources | |
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| An Annotated Student Research Paper in Mla Format | |
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| Theresa washington, why trials should not be televised | |
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| An Annotated Student Research Paper in Apa Format | |
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| Laura deveau, the role of spirituality and religion in mental health | |
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| Further Views On Argument | |
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| A Philosopher's View: The Toulmin Model | |
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| The Claim | |
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| Grounds | |
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| Warrants | |
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| Backing | |
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| Modal Qualifiers | |
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| Rebuttals | |
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| A Model Analysis Using the Toulmin Method | |
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| A Checklist for Using the Toulmin Method | |
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| Putting the Toulmin Method to Work: Responding to an Argument | |
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| Michael S. Dukakis and Daniel J. B. Mitchell, Raise Wages, Not Walls | |
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| Thinking with Toulmin's Method | |
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| A Logician's View: Deduction, Induction, Fallacies | |
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| Deduction | |
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| Induction | |
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| Fallacies | |
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| Fallacies of Ambiguity | |
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| Fallacies of Presumption | |
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| Fallacies of Relevance | |
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| A Checklist for Evaluating an Argument From a Logical Point of View Exercise: Fallacies-or Not? | |
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| Love Is a Fallacy | |
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| A Moralist's View: Ways of Thinking Ethically | |
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| Amoral Reasoning | |
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| Immoral Reasoning | |
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| Moral Reasoning: A Closer Look | |
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| Criteria for Moral Rules | |
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| A Checklist for Moral Reasoning | |
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| Famine, Affluence, and Morality | |
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| Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor | |
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| Three Letters (to an Ethicist) | |
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| A Lawyer's View: Steps toward Civic Literacy | |
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| Civil and Criminal Cases | |
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| Trial and Appeal | |
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| Decision and Opinion | |
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| Majority, Concurring, and Dissenting Opinions | |
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| Facts and Law | |
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| Balancing Interests | |
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| A Word of Caution | |
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| A Checklist for Analyzing Legal Arguments | |
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| A Casebook On the Law and Society: What Rights Do the Constitution and the Bill of Rights Protect? | |
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| Byron R. White and John Paul Stevens, New Jersey v. T.L.O | |
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| Harry Blackmun and William H. Rehnquist, Roe v. Wade | |
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| A Psychologist's View: Rogerian Argument | |
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| Rogerian Argument: An Introduction | |
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| Communication: Its Blocking and Its Facilitation | |
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| A Checklist for Analyzing Rogerian Argument | |
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| Letter to a Southern Baptist Minister | |
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| A Literary Critic's View: Arguing about Literature | |
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| Interpreting | |
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| Judging (Or Evaluating) | |
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| Theorizing | |
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| A Checklist for An Argument About Literature | |
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| Examples: Two Students Interpret Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" | |
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| Mending Wall | |
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| The Deluded Speaker in Frost's "Mending Wall" | |
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| The Debate in Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" | |
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| Exercises: Reading a Poem and a Story | |
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| To His Coy Mistress | |
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| The Story of an Hour | |
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| Thinking About the Effects of Literature | |
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| Plato, "The Greater Part of the Stories Current Today We Shall Have to Reject" | |
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| Thinking About Government Funding for the Arts | |
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| A Debater's View: Individual Oral Presentations and Debate | |
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| Classroom Individual Oral Presentations | |
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| Personal Appearance | |
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| Forms of Delivery | |
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| The Language of the Talk | |
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| Pace of Speaking | |
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| Movement | |
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| Audiovisual Aids | |
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| A Checklist for An Oral Presentation | |
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| Formal Debates | |
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| Standard Debate Format | |
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| The Audience | |
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| Delivery | |
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| The Talk | |
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| A Checklist for Preparing for a Debate | |
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| A Casebook On the State and the Individual | |
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| What Is the Ideal Society? | |
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| From Utopia | |
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| From The Prince | |
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| The Declaration of Independence | |
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| Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions | |
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| I Have a Dream | |
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| The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | |
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