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Preface for Teachers (and Curious Students) to the Brief Edition | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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An Appeal to Students | |
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English as a Survival Skill | |
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Critical Education in Historical Perspective | |
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"An End to History" | |
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"Majoring in Debt" | |
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"Where's the Misery?" | |
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Young America Foundation's Homepage | |
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"The Voices of Dissent" | |
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What Is an Argument? What Is a Good Argument? | |
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What Is a Good Argument? | |
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"The Intellectual Free Lunch" | |
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Analysis, Synthesis, and Judgments | |
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Style and Tone, Eloquence and Moral Force | |
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Conclusion | |
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Rhetoric: A Checklist for Analyzing Your Own and Others' Arguments | |
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A Historical-Causal Analysis of "The White Problem" | |
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Definitions and Criteria of Critical Thinking | |
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Critical Thinking and Cultural Literacy | |
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Making Connections | |
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Dialogue in Critical Thinking and Literature | |
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Recursiveness, Cumulativeness, and Levels of Meaning | |
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Drawing the Line and Establishing Proportion | |
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Avoiding Oversimplification and Recognizing Complexity | |
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Reading Between the Lines | |
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Irony and Paradox | |
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"My Dungeon Shook" | |
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"A Noiseless Patient Spider" | |
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"Can Patriotism Be Compassionate?" | |
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Semantics in Rhetoric and Critical Thinking | |
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Denotation and Connotation | |
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Definition and Denotation in Argument | |
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Connotation in Argument: "Cleans" and "Dirties" | |
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Euphemism | |
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Abstract and Concrete Language | |
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Unconcretized Abstractions | |
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Literal and Figurative Language | |
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Literal and Figurative Language in Literature | |
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Summary: Applying Semantic Analysis | |
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A Semantic Calculator for Bias in Rhetoric | |
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"When Words Cheapen Life" | |
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"Framing the Issues" | |
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"Look Behind Statistics for Changing Definitions" | |
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Writing Argumentative Papers | |
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Prewriting | |
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Writing | |
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Postwriting | |
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Locating and Evaluating Sources | |
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A Model of the Writing Process in a Student Paper | |
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from The Beauty Myth | |
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"The Backlash Myth" | |
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Attaining an Open Mind: Overcoming Psychological Obstacles to Critical Thinking | |
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From Cocksure Ignorance to Thoughtful Uncertainty: Viewpoint, Bias, and Fairness-Culturally Conditioned Assumptions and Centrisms | |
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Relativism and Commitment | |
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Biased and Unbiased Viewpoints: The ESBYODS Principle | |
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Acknowledge Your Own and Opposing Viewpoints | |
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Rogerian Argument, Believers and Doubters | |
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Culturally Conditioned Assumptions and Centrisms | |
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Totems and Taboos | |
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Ethnocentrism | |
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American Ethnocentrism | |
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"Battle over Patriotism Curriculum" | |
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Questioning Capitalism | |
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Phallocentrism | |
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Other Centrisms | |
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from A Room of One's Own | |
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"Anti-Capitalism in Five Minutes or Less" | |
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Overgeneralization, Stereotyping, and Prejudice | |
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Prejudice | |
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Class Prejudice | |
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Reverse Prejudice | |
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"An Unexpected Education at St. Anthony's" | |
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"Life on the Expense Account" | |
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"Dozens of Billionaires Receive Ag Handouts" | |
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"Wal-Mart: Rise of the Goliath" | |
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Authoritarianism and Conformity, Rationalization and Compartmentalization | |
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from Network | |
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Rationalization, Compartmentalized Thinking, and Double Standards | |
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Other Defense Mechanisms | |
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from 1984 | |
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"On the Merits" | |
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"Greens Dodge Links to Unabomber" | |
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Elements of Argumentative Rhetoric | |
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Some Key Terms in Logic and Argumentation | |
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Deductive and Inductive Arguments | |
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Implications and Inferences | |
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Setting the Agenda | |
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Tone and Style | |
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Polemics | |
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Ground Rules for Polemicists | |
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"Vouchers, Choice: Opposing Views" | |
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"Chicken Little Calling Out, 'Global Warming!'" | |
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"Closing the Wealth Gap" | |
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Logical and Rhetorical Fallacies | |
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Glossary of Logical and Rhetorical Fallacies | |
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Causal Analysis | |
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"Ya Got Trouble" | |
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"Other People's Children: North Lawndale and the South Side of Chicago" | |
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"Crisis in American Education" | |
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Uses and Misuses of Emotional Appeal | |
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Appeals to "Cleans" and "Dirties" | |
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Puff Pieces and Hatchet Jobs | |
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"Bunker Hunt's Greatest Investment" | |
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Predictable Patterns of Wartime Rhetoric: Appeals to Fear and Pity | |
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"The War Prayer" | |
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"The Real War 1939-1945" | |
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"War Is the Supreme Drug," An Interview with Author Chris Hedges | |
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Thinking Critically About the Rhetoric of Politics and Mass Media | |
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Thinking Critically About Political Rhetoric | |
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Political Semantics | |
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Liberalism, Conservatism, Democrat, Republican | |
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Socialism, Communism, Marxism | |
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The World Political Spectrum | |
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The American Political Spectrum | |
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A Guide to Political Terms and Positions | |
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Notes on the Guide to Political Terms and Positions | |
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Predictable Patterns of Political Rhetoric | |
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A Note on Twenty-First Century Modifications to Table 13.1 | |
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Political Viewpoints in Sources | |
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"If We Decided to Tax the Rich" | |
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"The Intellectual Class War" | |
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"Fascism Anyone?" | |
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Thinking Critically About Mass Media | |
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Do the Media Give People What They Want? | |
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Are News Media Objective? What Are Their Biases? | |
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The Debate over Political Bias in Media | |
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Conclusion | |
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"The Illiberal Media" | |
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"Networks Need a Reality Check" | |
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"Liberal Hate-Speech" | |
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"Matthews vs. McNulty" | |
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"Outfoxed Tweaks Rupert Murdoch's Mayhem-isphere" | |
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Assignment for a Paper | |
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Deception Detection: Varieties of Special Interests and Propaganda | |
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Special Interests, Conflict of Interest, and Special Pleading | |
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Lobbying and Public Relations | |
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Varieties of Propaganda | |
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Invective and Smearing | |
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Government Public Relations; the Military-Industrial-Media Complex | |
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"The Historic Power of Special Interests" | |
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"When Money Talks" | |
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"Flack Attack" | |
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60 Minutes, "Confessions of a Tobacco Lobbyist" | |
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Putting It All Together in a Long Paper | |
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A Case Study: Rhetoric and the Wealth Gap | |
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Goldberg versus Chait on Taxes | |
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"The Rich Aren't Made of Money" | |
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"A Very Special Kind of Math" | |
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Sklar versus the Wall Street Journal | |
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"Billionaires Up, America Down" | |
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Wall Street Journal "Movin' On Up: A Treasury Study Refutes Populist Hokum About 'Income Inequality'" | |
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Analyzing Statistical Tricks | |
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Summary of Suspicious Statistical Arguments | |
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An Outline of Conservative and Leftist Arguments on the Rich, the Poor, and the Middle Class | |
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Collecting and Evaluating Opposing Sources: Writing the Research Paper | |
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Assignment for an Annotated Bibliography and Working Outline | |
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Sample Annotated Bibliography Entry | |
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Sample Working Outline | |
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Sample Research Paper | |
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Documentation and Research Resources | |
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Documentation | |
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Works Cited Section | |
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Research Resources | |
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Index | |
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Credits | |