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| An Overview: Critical Thinking And Argumentation | |
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| Reading Arguments | |
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| Why Argue? | |
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| The Vocabulary of Argument | |
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| Justifying an Argument | |
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| Aristotle and the Appeal to Reason | |
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| Emotional and Ethical Appeals | |
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| Toulmin Arguments | |
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| Reading Visual Arguments | |
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| Reading and Writing About Five Current Issues | |
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| "From Stone Age to Phone Age" | |
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| "All Go Down Together" | |
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| "One Nation, Indivisible? Wanna Bet?" | |
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| "Fence of Lies" | |
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| Writing Arguments | |
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| The Writing Process | |
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| First Steps | |
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| Identifying Issues | |
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| Limiting your Topic | |
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| Knowing Your Purpose and Audience | |
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| Making a Claim in Your Thesis | |
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| Supporting Your Claim | |
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| Organizing Your Argument | |
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| Checking Your Assumptions (or Warrants) | |
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| Refutation: Meeting the Opposition | |
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| Avoiding Traps in Appeals and Logic | |
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| Perspectives on Love and Marriage: Reading and Writing About a Critical Issue | |
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| "I Want a Wife" | |
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| "Love and Race" | |
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| "Kissing Cousins" | |
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| "Let Gays Marry" | |
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| "Unmarried, With Children." | |
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| Literary Arguments: Getting to the Point About Literature and the Arts | |
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| Reading Arguments about Literature and the Arts | |
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| Discovery | |
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| Interpretation | |
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| Evaluation | |
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| Reading Literary Arguments: A Checklist | |
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| Writing Arguments about Literature and the Arts | |
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| Writing Literary Arguments: A Checklist | |
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| A Student's Literary Argument | |
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| e.e. cummings, "in just" | |
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| "Delights and Dangers of Childhood" [student essay] | |
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| Literary Arguments for Reading and Analysis | |
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| "The Story of an Hour" | |
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| Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" | |
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| "Wallace Stevens' | |
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| 'The Snow Man' and Hemingway's 'A Clean Well-Lighted Place'" | |
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| "Dickinson's 'I Started Early - Took My Dog -'" | |
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| "Tabloid Princess: Review of The Diana Chronicles Tiny Brown" | |
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| "Acting Out: Review of Spider-Man 3" | |
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| Contemporary Debates | |
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| Rap Culture: Is It Too Negative? | |
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| "Rap Fans Desire a More Positive Product" | |
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| "Ice-T: The Issue Is Creative Freedom" | |
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| SUVs: Safe or Dangerous | |
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| "Terror on the Roads" | |
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| "Did My Car Join Al Qaeda?" | |
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| Wal-Mart: Good or Evil? | |
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| Jack and Suzy Welch, "What's Right About Wal-Mart" | |
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| "Low Pay, Few Benefits | |
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| Animal Rights: Should They Compromise Human Needs? | |
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| "Is a Lab Rat's Fate More Poignant Than a Child's?" | |
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| "A Question of Ethics" | |
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| Stem Cell Research: Yes or No? | |
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| "False Dilemma on Stem Cells" | |
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| "What Would a Clone Say?" | |
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| Capital Punishment: Should We Take a Human Life? | |
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| "Wrongly Convicted?" | |
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| "What Do Murderers Deserve?" | |
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| Perspectives On Critical Issues | |
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| The Internet: How Do We Relate to Each Other in Cyberspace? | |
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| "Anyone Need a Friend?" | |
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| "I Surf, Therefore I Am" | |
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| "Saturday Night and You're All Alone? Maybe You Need a Cyberdate" | |
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| "YouTube: Maker of Dreams, Destroyer of Lives" [student essay] | |
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| Campus Violence: What is the Answer? | |
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| "Feeling Safe Isn't Safe" | |
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| "Why It's Ok to Rat On Other Students" | |
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| "How Safe Are America's Campuses?" | |
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| "Shootings" | |
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| Work, Money, and Class: Who Benefits? | |
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| "Off to Work She Should Go" | |
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| "The Case Against Chores" | |
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| "The Triumph of Hope Over Self-Interest" | |
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| "Fitting the Poor into the Economy" | |
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| The Media: Do We Control It, or Does It Control Us? | |
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| "Why We Tuned Out" | |
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| "Spinning into Oblivion" | |
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| "Toxic Media" | |
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| The Environment: How Can We Preserve It? | |
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| "No Margin for Error" | |
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| "Out of the Wild" | |
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| "Apologia" | |
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| "In Distrust of Movements" | |
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| Globalization: How Are We Interconnected? | |
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| "Globalization, Alive and Well" | |
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| "We Are the World" | |
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| "Innovate or Perish" | |
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| "Wealth of Nations" | |
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| Terrorism: How Should We Meet the Challenge? | |
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| Reshma Memon Yaqub, "You People Did This" | |
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| "Words Fail, Memory Blurs, Life Wins" | |
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| "Bad Luck: Why Americans Exaggerate the Terrorist Threat" | |
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| SIX CLASSIC ARGUMENTS | |
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| Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave" | |
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| "A Modest Proposal" | |
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| "Professions for Women" | |
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| "A Hanging" | |
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| "The Obligation to Endure" | |
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| "I Have a Dream" | |
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| A Casebook On Americans Eating Habits: Are We What We Eat? | |
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| "Want Fewer Fries With That?" | |
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| "Were Fatter but Not Smarter" | |
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| "Don't Blame the Eater" | |
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| "Instructions for Stress Diet" | |
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| "The McNugget of Truth in Lawsuits Against Fast-Food Restaurants" | |
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| Adbusters, "Grease" | |
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| "The Fat Tax: A Modest Proposal" | |
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| "Trick or Treat" | |
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| "The Body of the Beholder" | |
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| "The Joy of Eating" | |
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| "Weight Loss Guide" | |
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| "The Culture of Thin Bites Fiji" | |
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| "Waifs on the Web" | |
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| Constructing a Brief Argumentative Research Paper | |
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| Using Research and Documentation to Support Your Argument | |
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| The Research Process | |
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| Stage One: Choosing an Issue | |
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| Stage Two: Establishing Your Claim | |
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| Stage Three: Gathering and Organizing Evidence | |
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| Stage Four: Writing the Paper | |
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| Stage Five: Documenting Sources | |
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| Sample Student Research Paper: Nelson Rivera, "Combating Childhood Obesity: Why Can't Johnny Touch His Toes?" [student essay] | |