| Preface | p. iii |
| Critical Thinking and Reading | p. 1 |
| Critical Thinking | p. 3 |
| Thinking About Drivers' Licenses and Photographic Identification | p. 3 |
| Thinking About Another Issue Concerning Drivers' Licenses: Imagination, Analysis, Evaluation | p. 8 |
| Writing as a Way of Thinking | p. 10 |
| A Short Essay Illustrating Critical Thinking | p. 14 |
| Examining Assumptions | p. 17 |
| A Casebook on Examining Assumptions: What Values do Tests Have? | p. 19 |
| A Checklist for Evaluating Letters of Response | p. 24 |
| Critical Reading: Getting Started | p. 30 |
| Active Reading | p. 30 |
| Summarizing and Paraphrasing | p. 35 |
| A Casebook for Critical Reading: Should Some Kinds of Speech Be Censored? | p. 47 |
| Critical Reading: Getting Deeper into Arguments | p. 65 |
| Persuasion, Argument, Dispute | p. 65 |
| Reason Versus Rationalization | p. 66 |
| Some Procedures in Argument | p. 67 |
| Nonrational Appeals | p. 89 |
| Does All Writing Contain Arguments? | p. 93 |
| An Example: An Argument and a Look at the Writer's Strategies | p. 94 |
| Arguments for Analysis | p. 100 |
| A Casebook: What Role Should Diversity Play in College and University Admission Polices? | p. 118 |
| Visual Rhetoric: Images as Arguments | p. 141 |
| Some Uses of Images | p. 141 |
| Appeals to the Eye | p. 141 |
| Are Some Images Not Fit to Be Shown? | p. 145 |
| Reading Advertisements | p. 149 |
| Visuals as Aids to Clarity: Maps, Graphs, Tables, and Pie Charts | p. 154 |
| A Note on Using Visuals in Your Own Paper | p. 155 |
| Critical Writing | p. 167 |
| Writing an Analysis of an Argument | p. 169 |
| Analyzing an Argument | p. 169 |
| An Argument, Its Elements, and a Student's Analysis of the Argument | p. 173 |
| An Analysis of the Student's Analysis | p. 181 |
| Arguments for Analysis | p. 183 |
| Developing an Argument of Your Own | p. 219 |
| Planning, Drafting, and Revising an Argument | p. 219 |
| A Checklist for Attending to the Needs of the Audience | p. 241 |
| Peer Review | p. 242 |
| A Student's Essay, From Rough Notes to Final Version | p. 243 |
| Using Sources | p. 251 |
| Why Use Sources? | p. 251 |
| Choosing a Topic | p. 253 |
| Finding Material | p. 254 |
| Interviewing Peers and Local Authorities | p. 254 |
| Using the Library | p. 256 |
| Finding Information Online | p. 258 |
| Evaluating Sources | p. 258 |
| Taking Notes | p. 262 |
| A Word About Plagiarism | p. 263 |
| Compiling an Annotated Bibliography | p. 265 |
| Writing the Paper | p. 267 |
| Quoting From Sources | p. 270 |
| Documentation | p. 271 |
| An Annotated Student Research Paper in MLA Format | p. 293 |
| An Annotated Student Research Paper in APA Format | p. 310 |
| Further Views on Argument | p. 321 |
| A Philosopher's View: The Toulmin Model | p. 323 |
| The Claim | p. 323 |
| Grounds | p. 324 |
| Warrants | p. 325 |
| Backing | p. 326 |
| Modal Qualifiers | p. 326 |
| Rebuttals | p. 328 |
| A Model Analysis Using the Toulmin Method | p. 328 |
| A Logician's View: Deduction, Induction, Fallacies | p. 332 |
| Deduction | p. 332 |
| Induction | p. 343 |
| Fallacies | p. 351 |
| A Moralist's View: Ways of Thinking Ethically | p. 372 |
| Amoral Reasoning | p. 374 |
| Immoral Reasoning | p. 376 |
| Moral Reasoning: A Closer Look | p. 378 |
| Criteria for Moral Rules | p. 380 |
| A Lawyer's View: Steps toward Civic Literacy | p. 417 |
| Civil and Criminal Cases | p. 418 |
| Trial and Appeal | p. 419 |
| Decision and Opinion | p. 419 |
| Majority, Concurring, and Dissenting Opinions | p. 420 |
| Facts and Law | p. 421 |
| Balancing Interests | p. 422 |
| A Word of Caution | p. 423 |
| A Casebook on the Law and Society: What Rights do the Constitution and the Bill of Rights Protect? | p. 425 |
| A Psychologist's View: Rogerian Argument | p. 454 |
| A Checklist for Analyzing Rogerian Argument | p. 462 |
| A Literary Critic's View: Arguing about Literature | p. 463 |
| Interpreting | p. 463 |
| Judging (or Evaluating) | p. 464 |
| Theorizing | p. 468 |
| Examples: Two Students Interpret Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" | p. 469 |
| Thinking about the Effects of Literature | p. 489 |
| Thinking about Government Funding for the Arts | p. 497 |
| A Forensic View: Oral Presentation and Debate | p. 498 |
| Standard Debate Format | p. 499 |
| The Audience | p. 500 |
| Delivery | p. 501 |
| The Talk | p. 503 |
| Two Examples of Oral Presentation | p. 504 |
| Current Issues: Occasions for Debate | p. 509 |
| Debates as an Aid to Thinking | p. 510 |
| Abortion: Whose Right to Life Is It Anyway? | p. 513 |
| Affirmative Action: Is It Fair? | p. 525 |
| Cell Phones: Should Their Use While Driving Be Prohibited? | p. 541 |
| Censorship: Should Public Libraries Filter Internet Sites? | p. 545 |
| Gay Marriages: Should They Be Legalized? | p. 550 |
| Gun Control: Would It Really Help? | p. 557 |
| Current Issues: Casebooks | p. 573 |
| The Death Penalty: Can It Ever Be Justified? | p. 575 |
| Drugs: Should Their Sale and Use Be Legalized? | p. 611 |
| Euthanasia: Should Doctors Intervene at the End of Life? | p. 646 |
| The Just War: What Are the Criteria? | p. 670 |
| Privacy: What Are Its Limits? | p. 688 |
| Reparations: Under What Circumstances Are They Appropriate? | p. 718 |
| Sexual Harassment: Is There Any Doubt about What It Is? | p. 740 |
| Torture: Is It Ever Justifiable? | p. 757 |
| Enduring Questions: Essays, Stories, Poems, and A Play | p. 769 |
| What Is the Ideal Society? | p. 771 |
| How Free Is the Will of the Individual within Society? | p. 837 |
| What Is Happiness? | p. 915 |
| Thoughts About Happiness, Ancient and Modern | p. 916 |
| Index of Authors and Titles | p. 941 |
| Index of Terms | p. 947 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |