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| A Topical Contents of the Writing Process Sections | |
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| A Preface for Teachers | |
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| A Message to Students | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Nature Of Argument | |
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| Argument and Rationality | |
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| Argument as Civil Conversation | |
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| Motivating Your Argument | |
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| Developing Your Argument | |
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| Articulating Claims | |
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| Reasons and Evidence | |
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| Reporting Evidence | |
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| Warranting Claims and Reasons | |
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| Acknowledgments and Responses | |
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| A Checklist of Questions for Planning and Revising | |
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| Thinking About Thinking In Arguments | |
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| The Aims of Reasoning | |
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| Thinking About Meanings | |
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| Thinking About Causes | |
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| The Languages Of Argument | |
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| Clear Language | |
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| The Overt and Covert Force of Language | |
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| Appendix | |
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| A Quick Guide to Citations | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Fallacies | |
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| Readings | |
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| Truthfulness and Deception | |
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| Introduction | |
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| On a Supposed Right to Lie from Altruistic Motives | |
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| From Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life | |
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| Lies | |
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| Damn Lies and Statistics | |
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| The Truth About Lying | |
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| Sociobiology of Deceit | |
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| Are We Lying to Ourselves About Deception? | |
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| Private Lives, Public Lies | |
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| Overview | |
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| From Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans | |
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| The Unmaking of Rigoberta Menchú | |
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| I, Rigoberta Menchú, Liar | |
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| Nothing but Innuendo and Weak Allegations | |
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| Professor's Past in Doubt: Discrepancies Surface in Claim of Vietnam Duty | |
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| Truth and Consequences | |
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| Creative History: Joseph Ellis on Thomas Jefferson, Impeachment of Bill Clinton | |
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| Santa Claus | |
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| Overview | |
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| Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa | |
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| Yes, Virginia, There Probably Is No Santa | |
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| Cultural Myths and Rituals | |
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| Knowledge: The Case of Santa Claus | |
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| Model Analysis of Formal Argument: Jill Doner Kagle's Are We Lying to Ourselves About Deception? | |
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| Collective Delusion: Irrational Fears, Panicked Responses | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Defining Hysteria | |
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| Mass Delusions and Hysterias: Highlights from the Past Millenium | |
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| Explaining the Salem Witch Trials | |
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| Under an Evil Hand | |
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| Annotations from The Crucible | |
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| Ergotism: The Satan Loosed in Salem? | |
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| Witchcraft or Mycotoxin? The Salem Witch Trials | |
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| America: The Devil in Salem and Masks of Mythomania and Demonopathy | |
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| Children, Witches, Demons, and Cultural Reality | |
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| Contemporary Collective Delusion Arguments | |
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| We Are Facing a Deadly Enemy. Not Anthrax, but Hysteria | |
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| India's Monkey Man and the Politics of Mass Hysteria | |
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| Salem Revisited | |
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| Is this a Drug War or a Witch-Hunt? | |
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| The Dot-Com Witch Hunt | |
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| Model Analysis of Informal Argument: Steve Connor's We Are Facing a Deadly Enemy. Not Anthrax, but Hysteria | |
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| Romantic Love | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Future of Love | |
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| Making Up Emotional People: The Case of Romantic Love | |
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| College Student Attitudes Toward Sexual Intimacy | |
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| Love Online | |
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| Love Online | |
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| Love on the Internet: Involvement and Misrepresentation in Romantic Relationships in Cyberspace vs. Realspace | |
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| Downloading Love: A Content Analysis of Internet Personal Advertisements Placed by College Students | |
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| Spying at Home: A New Pastime to Detect Online Romance | |
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| Love in the Movies | |
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| Wes Gehring, Love and Laughter: A Cinematic Valentine's Day Bouquet | |
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| The Same, but Different | |
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| The End of Romance: The Demystification of Love in the Postmodern Age | |
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| Kiss Kiss, Sob, Sob | |
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| The Subversive Potential of the Unlikely Couple Film | |
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| Model Analysis of Formal Argument: College Student Attitudes Toward Sexual Intimacy | |
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| Life on the Edge: Our Love/Hate Relationship with Risk | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Calculated Risks: What Are the Chances? | |
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| The Economist, A Busted Flush: How America's Love Affair with Gambling Turned to Disillusionment | |
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| Risk | |
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| Getting There in One Piece: Personal Choice and Public Safety | |
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| Taming the Road Warrior | |
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| Arms Race on the Highway | |
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| Graduated Licensure: A Win-Win Proposition for Teen Drivers and Parents | |
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| How Safe Can We Get? | |
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| Binge Drinking and Student Health | |
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| Health and Behavioral Consequences of Binge Drinking in College: A National Survey of Students at 140 Campuses | |
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| Ed Carson, Purging Bingeing | |
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| Binge Drinking as a Substitute for a 'Community of Learning.' | |
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| Wisdom in a Bottle: 'Binge Drinking' and the New Campus Nannyism | |
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| A New You: Beauty, Identity, and Consumerism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Isn't She Lovely? | |
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| Nothing Becomes a Man More Than a Woman's Face | |
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| Frat-Boy Fetishism: When the Goods Get Together | |
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| Body Image/Body Art | |
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| Ring Leader | |
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| On Teenagers and Tattoos | |
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| Beauty or the Beast? | |
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| Santa Cruz Grants Anti-Bias Protection to the Ugly | |
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| Looks Won't Mean a Lot if Anti-Bias Law Is Approved | |
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| Washington Times | |
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| School Uniforms | |
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| Uniforms Rule | |
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| Study Suggests School Uniforms Have Not Had the Impact Proponents Hoped For | |
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| Should School Uniforms Be Mandated in Elementary Schools? | |
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| School Uniforms: The Answer to Violence in American Schools or a Cheap Educational Reform? | |
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| A Full House: American Family Values | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Simpsons: Atomistic Politics and the Nuclear Family | |
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| She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not | |
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| Defining Daddy Down | |
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| Child Care | |
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| Cathy Young, The Mommy Wars | |
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| More Work | |
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| More Play | |
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| Dial-A-Wife | |
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| The Battle over Child Care | |
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| Non-Traditional Families | |
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| The Economist, Anti-Nuclear Reaction | |
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| Is Love Colorblind? | |
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| Overseas Adoptions: The Secret Everyone Is Talking About | |
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| Why There Is No Crisis of Families: They're Different, But Better | |
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