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Current Issues and Enduring Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking and Argument, with Readings
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The unique collaborative effort of a distinguished interdisciplinary team — a professor of English and a professor of philosophy — Current Issues and Enduring Questions is a balanced and flexible book that provides the benefit of the authors dual expertise in effective persuasive writing and rigorous critical thinking. Its comprehensive coverage of classic and contemporary approaches to argument includes Aristotle, Toulmin, and a range of alternative views, making it an extraordinarily versatile text. Readings on contemporary controversies (including the purpose of a college education, immigration, a peacetime draft, and obesity) and classic philosophical questions (such as, "How free is the will of the individual?") are sure to spark student interest and lively discussion and writing. Refined through seven widely adopted previous editions, it has been revised to address current student interests and trends in argument, research, and writing, and has been updated with compelling new topics and readings and more on analyzing visuals and presenting oral arguments. No other text and reader offers such an extensive resource for teaching argument. About the AuthorSylvan Barnet, professor of English and former director of writing at Tufts University, is the most prolific and consistently successful college English textbook author of the past 30 years. His several texts on writing and his numerous anthologies for introductory composition and literature courses have remained leaders in their field through many editions. Hugo Bedau, professor of philosophy at Tufts University, has served as chair of the philosophy department and chair of the universitys committee on College Writing. An internationally respected expert on the death penalty, and on moral, legal, and political philosophy, he has written or edited a number of books on these topics. He is the author of Thinking and Writing about Philosophy, Second Edition (Bedford/St. Martins). Table of ContentsPART I. CRITICAL THINKING AND READING 1. Critical Thinking Thinking About Drivers Licenses and Photographic Identification Thinking About Another Issue Concerning Drivers Licenses: Imagination, Analysis, Evaluation Writing as a Way of Thinking A CHECKLIST FOR CRITICAL THINKING A Short Essay Illustrating Critical Thinking Alan Dershowitz, Why Fear National ID Cards? Examining Assumptions A CHECKLIST FOR EXAMINING ASSUMPTIONS ]Thinking about Wild Horses ]Deanne Stillman, Last Roundup for Wild Horses A CHECKLIST FOR EVALUATING LETTERS OF RESPONSE Letters of Response By Holly Williams and Tom Burke ]Luke Saginaw (Student Essay), Why Flag-Burning Should Not Be Permitted Five Exercises in Critical Thinking 2. Critical Reading: Getting Started Active Reading Previewing Skimming: Finding the Thesis Reading With A Pencil: Underlining, Highlighting, Annotating ÒThis; Therefore, ThatÓ First, Second, and Third Thoughts Summarizing and Paraphrasing ]A Note About Paraphrase and Plagiarism ]Last Words (Almost) About Summarizing Susan Jacoby, A First Amendment Junkie Summarizing Jacoby, Paragraph by Paragraph A CHECKLIST FOR GETTING STARTED ]Gwen Wilde (Student Essay), Why the Pledge of Allegiance Should Be Revised A Casebook for Critical Reading: Should Some Kinds of Speech Be Censored? Susan Brownmiller, Lets Put Pornography Back In the Closet Charles R. Lawrence III, On Racist Speech Derek Bok, Protecting Freedom of Expression on the Campus ]Stanley Fish, Conspiracy Theories ]Letters of Response By Jonah Seligman, Richard DiMatteo, Miriam Cherkes-Julkowski, Joseph Kyle, and Patrick Ward Jean Kilbourne, "Own This Child" Exercise: Letter to the Editor 3. Critical Reading: Getting Deeper Into Arguments Persuasion, Argument, Dispute Reason Versus Rationalization Some Procedures in Argument Definition Assumptions Premises and Syllogisms Deduction Sound Arguments Induction Evidence Examples Authoritative Testimony Statistics A CHECKLIST FOR EVALUATING STATISTICAL EVIDENCE Nonrational Appeals Satire Irony Sarcasm Humor Emotional Appeals Does All Writing Contain Arguments? A CHECKLIST FOR ANALYZING AN ARGUMENT An Example: An Argument and a Look at the Writers Strategies George F. Will, Being Green at Ben and Jerrys George F. Willss Strategies Arguments for Analysis Gloria Jiminez (Student Essay), Against the Odds, and Against the Common Good Anna Lisa Raya (Student Essay), Its Hard Enough Being Me Ronald Takaki, The Harmful Myth of Asian Superiority James Q. Wilson, Just Take Away Their Guns ]Nadya Labi, Classrooms for Sale ]Nadine Strossen, Everyone Is Watching You ]E-Mail Responses to Nadine Strossen ]Sally Satel, Deaths Waiting List ]Letters of Response By Dorothy H. Hayes, Charles B. Fruit, and Michelle Goodwin ]Paul Kane, A Peaceful Call to Arms ]Letters of Response By Julie E. Dinnerstein, Murray Polner, Joan Z. Greiner, and Joshua Zimmerman 4. Visual Rhetoric: Images As Arguments Some Uses of Images Appeals to the Eye Are Some Images Not Fit to Be Shown? Exercises: Thinking About Images Reading Advertisements A CHECKLIST FOR ANALYZING IMAGES (ESPECIALLY ADVERTISEMENTS) ]Writing About a Political Cartoon ]A CHECKLIST FOR ANALYZING POLITICAL CARTOONS ]Jackson Smith (Student Essay), Pledging Nothing? Visuals as Aids to Clarity: Maps, Graphs, Tables, and Pie Charts ]A CHECKLIST FOR CHARTS AND GRAPHS A Note on Using Visuals in Your Own Paper A Note on Formatting Your Paper: Document Design Additional Images for Analysis Nora Ephron, The Boston Photographs PART II. CRITICAL WRITING 5. Writing An Analysis of An Argument Analyzing An Argument Examining The Authors Thesis Examining The Authors Purpose Examining The Authors Methods Examining The Authors Persona Summary ]A CHECKLIST FOR ANALYZING A TEXT ]An Argument, Its Elements, and a Students Analysis of the Argument ]Nicholas D. Kristof, For Environmental Balance, Pick Up a Rifle ]Betsy Swinton (Student Essay), Tracking Kristof ]An Analysis of the Students Analysis A CHECKLIST FOR WRITING AN ANALYSIS OF AN ARGUMENT Arguments for Analysis Jeff Jacoby, Bring Back Flogging John Irving, Wrestling with Title IX Peter Singer, Animal Liberation Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal 6. Developing an Argument of Your Own Planning, Drafting, and Revising an Argument ]A CHECKLIST FOR A THESIS STATEMENT Getting Ideas The Thesis Imagining an Audience The Audience as Collaborator ]A CHECKLIST FOR IMAGINING AN AUDIENCE The Title The Opening Paragraphs Organizing and Revising the Body of the Essay The Ending Two Uses of an Outline Tone and the Writers Persona We, One, or I? Avoiding Sexist Language A CHECKLIST FOR ATTENDING TO THE NEEDS OF THE AUDIENCE Peer Review A PEER REVIEW CHECKLIST FOR A DRAFT OF AN ARGUMENT A Students Essay, from Rough Notes to Final Version Emily Andrews, Why I Dont Spare "Spare Change" The Essay Analyzed Exercise 7. Using Sources Why Use Sources? Choosing a Topic Finding Material A Word about Wikipedia Interviewing Peers and Local Authorities Finding Quality Information on the Web Finding Articles Using Library Databases ]Locating Books Evaluating Your Sources A CHECKLIST FOR EVALUATING PRINT SOURCES Taking Notes A CHECKLIST FOR EVALUATING ELECTRONIC SOURCES A Note on Plagiarizing, Paraphrasing, and Using Common Knowledge A CHECKLIST FOR AVOIDING PLAGIARISM Compiling an Annotated Bibliography Writing the Paper Organizing Your Notes The First Draft Later Drafts Choosing a Tentative Title The Final Draft Quoting from Sources The Use and Abuse of Quotations How to Quote
]A CHECKLIST FOR USING QUOTATIONS RATHER THAN SUMMARIES Documentation A Note on Footnotes (and Endnotes) MLA Format: Citations Within the Text MLA Format: the List of Works Cited APA Format: Citations Within the Text What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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