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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface to Teachers (and Curious Students) | |
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| Introduction An Appeal to Students | |
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| What Is an Argument? | |
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| What Is a Good Argument? | |
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| Definitions and Criteria of Critical Thinking | |
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| Writing Argumentative Papers | |
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| Attaining an Open Mind: Psychological, Social and Semantic | |
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| Dimensions of Critical Thinking | |
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| Viewpoint, Bias, and Fairness: From Cocksure Ignorance to Thoughtful | |
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| Uncertainty Questioning | |
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| Culturally Conditioned Assumptions and Ethnocentrism | |
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| Overgeneralization, Stereotyping, and Prejudice | |
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| Authoritarianism and Conformity, Rationalization and Compartmentalization | |
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| Semantics in Rhetoric and Critical Thinking | |
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| Elements of Argumentative Rhetoric | |
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| Some Key Terms in Logic and Argumentation | |
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| Logical and Rhetorical Fallacies | |
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| Causal Analysis | |
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| Uses and Misuses of Emotional Appeal | |
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| Thinking Critically About the Rhetoric of Politics and Mass Media | |
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| Thinking Critically About Political | |
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| Rhetoric Thinking | |
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| Critically about Mass Media | |
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| Deception Detection Special Interests | |
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| Conflict of Interest | |
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| Special Pleading Varieties of Propaganda Advertising and Hype | |
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| Putting It All Together in a Long Paper | |
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| A Case Study: The Rich, the Poor, and the Middle | |
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| Class-Sklar versus Weicher | |
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| Collecting and Evaluating Opposing Sources: Writing the Research Paper | |
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| Documentation and Research Resources | |
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| Documentation Research Resources | |
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| Sources in Print Online Resources | |
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| Glossary of Rhetorical and Critical Thinking Terms Works Cited | |
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| Index | |