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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 | |