Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing

by Sylvan Barnet; Hugo Bedau

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Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing

A Brief Guide to Argument

ISBN-10: 0-312-60160-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-60160-7
Paper Text, 592 pages

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Sylvan Barnet
Tufts University
Hugo Bedau
Tufts University

An affordable guide to academic argument

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing is a compact but complete guide to critical thinking and argumentation. Comprising the text portion of the widely adopted Current Issues and Enduring Questions, it draws on the authors’ dual expertise in effective persuasive writing and comprehensive rhetorical strategies to help students move from critical thinking to argumentative and researched writing. With comprehensive coverage of classic and contemporary approaches to argument, including Aristotle, Toulmin, and a range of alternative views, as well as 35 readings and a casebook on the state and the individual, it is an extraordinarily versatile text. This affordable guide can stand alone or supplement a larger anthology of readings.

“Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing is a good choice for instructors looking for a comprehensive text that thoroughly covers all aspects of good argumentative writing.”
--Connie S. Adair, Marshalltown Community College

"Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing is written on an intelligent level that does not talk down to students but expects them to work a bit and delight in discovery. It has a pleasant voice that is often wry and at times humorous. The authors use good examples to illustrate their points and present challenging readings for students from a wide variety of viewpoints."
— Maggie Christensen, University of Nebraska at Omaha