| Acquiring Critical Thinking Skills | |
| Out of the Fog: The Pathway to Critical Thinking | |
| Introduction to the Territory | |
| A Solid Foundation Obstacles to Clear Thinking | |
| Overview of Critical Thinking | |
| Profile of a Clear Thinker: Skills and Dispositions | |
| Frame of Reference Diverse | |
| Perspectives in Critical Thinking | |
| Social and Personal Decision Making | |
| Problem Solving | |
| Out of the Silence: The Power of Language | |
| Descriptions Culturally Defined | |
| Uses of Language Euphemisms | |
| Hedging Labels and Categories Ambiguity (Linguistic Fallacies) | |
| Concepts and Definitions: Meaning versus Use | |
| Jargon, Buzzwords, and Technical Terms | |
| Metaphors and Images | |
| The Passive Voice Loaded Language | |
| Propaganda Elusive Language and Hate Speech | |
| Overcoming Linguistic Lethargy | |
| Humor, Parody, and Satire The Liberatory Voice | |
| Sharpening Our Tools: The Basics of Argument | |
| Opinion versus Reasoned | |
| Argument Descriptions versus Inferences Facts, Opinions, and Ideas | |
| Good Arguments, Bad Arguments | |
| Fallacies, Fallacies: Steering Clear of Argumentative Quicksand | |
| Introduction to the Fallacies of Relevance Key | |
| Fallacies of Relevance Key | |
| Fallacies of Presumption More | |
| Fallacies of Presumption Key | |
| Fallacies of Ambiguity Formal Fallacies | |
| Analysis: The Heart of Critical Thinking | |
| Assessing Credibility Cogency | |
| Developing Analytical Skills | |
| Analyzing Arguments | |
| Independent versus Interdependent Evidence | |
| Analysis of an Article or Argument | |
| The Logic Machine: Deductive and Inductive | |
| Reasoning Key Terms in Arguments | |
| The Key to Distinguishing Propositions | |
| Deductive Reasoning | |
| Inductive Reasoning | |
| Truth Tables | |
| The Persuasive Power of Analogies Arguments from Analogy | |
| The Fallacy of False Analogy | |
| The Persuasive Force of an Analogy | |
| Assessing an Analogy Analyzing Analogies | |
| The Persuasive Aspects of Analogies | |
| Structuring the Analogy | |
| Analogies and Hypothetical Reasoning in the Law | |
| Going Out Into the World | |
| Desire and Illusion: Analyzing Advertising | |
| Reading the Society from Ads Assumptions | |
| The Use of Fallacies to Persuade | |
| The Power of Advertising | |
| Analyzing Ads | |
| The Verbal Message | |
| The Visual Message Winners and Losers in Advertising | |
| Voices of the Community: The News Media Tabloid-Style | |
| Journalism Watchdog Role of the Media | |
| Analyzing the Newspaper | |
| A Free Press Shaping Public Opinion | |
| The Distinct Role of Sports in the News Media | |
| Visions of the Real: Popular Culture | |
| The Big Picture Analyzing | |
| Popular Culture Assessing | |
| Arguments Placing a Work of Popular Culture in Context | |
| The Interface of Pop Culture and Reality | |
| Analyzing Reviews | |
| The Prescriptive versus Descriptive | |
| Debate Theories of Interpretation | |
| The Impact of Pop Culture Violence on the Screen | |
| Web Sight: Critical Thinking and the Internet | |
| Imaging the Internet | |
| Web Hoaxes | |
| Web Research | |
| Web Analysis | |
| Warning systems on the Internet | |
| Assessing the Impact of Internet | |
| Use Blogs and More Blogs | |
| The Internet and Intellectual Freedom | |
| Conflicting Views of the Internet | |
| The Logic Connection | |
| Wrestling with Big Questions: Pinning Down Arguments | |
| First Method: The Flowchart | |
| Second Method: Highlighting Key Words | |
| Third Method: Standard Form of an Argument | |
| Fourth Method: The Traditional Outline | |
| Fifth Method: The Bubble Outline | |
| Roll the Dice: Causal and Statistical Reasoning | |
| Cause-and-Effect Reasoning | |
| Arguments Based on Statistical Studies | |
| Handling Claims, Drawing Inferences | |
| Propositions Rules of Replacement for Ordinary Language | |
| Formal Rules of Replacement Squ | |
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