Current issues and enduring questions : a guide to critical thinking and argument, with readings /

Title:

Current issues and enduring questions : a guide to critical thinking and argument, with readings /

Published:

Boston : [2014]

Format:

Book

Institution:

Wentworth Institute of Technology

Contents:

Critical thinking -- Critical reading: getting started -- Critical reading: getting deeper into arguments -- Visual rhetoric: images as arguments -- Writing an analysis of an argument -- Developing an argument of your own -- Using sources -- A philosopher's view : the Toulmin model -- A logician's view : deduction, induction, fallacies -- A psychologist's view : Rogerian argument -- A rhetorician's view : rhetorical analysis of nontraditional texts -- A debater's view: individual oral presentations and debate -- Student loans : should some indebtedness be forgiven? -- Are integrated devices safer than using handheld devices while driving? -- The local food movement : is it a better way to eat? -- The death penalty : is it ever justified? -- Genetic modification of human beings : is it acceptable? -- College education : what is its purpose? -- Hydraulic fracturing : is fracking worth the environmental cost? -- Drugs : should their sale and use be legalized? -- Junk food : should the government regulate our intake? -- Facebook : how has social networking changed how we relate to others? -- Immigration: what is to be done? -- Service : should the United States require young people to perform public service? -- What is the ideal society? -- How free is the will of the individual within society? -- What is happiness?

Online access:

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Library holdings:

Wentworth Circulation Desk
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