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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Absolutely worth your every second!
This is very comprehensive book for those serious in getting into critical thinking, reading and writing. Mr Sylvan Barnet lived up to his name by patiently guiding the reader through the fundamental of critical thoughts and common fallacies. For those in research writing or working towards being a writer, Mr Sylvan Barnet provides step by step guidance on...
Published on November 19, 2006 by Ho Kheong Tan
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Table of Contents
I haven't read the book yet and I am thinking about ordering it. I found the table of contents from another site and thought it would be helpful to others. I wish we would write reviews without being forced to rate simply to share information like this. Table of Contents PART I. CRITICAL THINKING AND READING 1. Critical Thinking Thinking...
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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Absolutely worth your every second!,
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This review is from: Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A Brief Guide to Argument (Paperback)
This is very comprehensive book for those serious in getting into critical thinking, reading and writing. Mr Sylvan Barnet lived up to his name by patiently guiding the reader through the fundamental of critical thoughts and common fallacies.
For those in research writing or working towards being a writer, Mr Sylvan Barnet provides step by step guidance on how to reference your works and highlighted what is really meant by plagarism. There were excerpts from Utopia and Martin Luther King and many others which will definitely enlighten the readers and provide much thought and insight into relooking at our society!
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent Book,
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Great book that gives very good advice for thinking critically while reading and writing. A big portion of the book is reprints of articles used as examples, but these reprints are good to read as exercises.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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I bought this for my English class and surprisingly, I actually enjoyed reading it and I learned a lot. It is a very helpful guide for writing and reading. It uses a lot of interesting references and is clearly up to date. I recommend this book for writers and students.
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Table of Contents,
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I haven't read the book yet and I am thinking about ordering it. I found the table of contents from another site and thought it would be helpful to others. I wish we would write reviews without being forced to rate simply to share information like this.Table of Contents PART 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 Herb Kimsey and Tom Burke ]Luke Saginaw (Student Essay), Why Flag-Burning Ought Not to 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, ÒOwn This ChildÓ 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 A CHECKLIST FOR ANALYZING AN ARGUMENT Does All Writing Contain Arguments? 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 JimZnez (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 Note on Using Visuals In Your Own Paper ]A CHECKLIST FOR CHARTS AND GRAPHS 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 Getting Ideas The Thesis ]A CHECKLIST FOR A THESIS STATEMENT 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 ÒSpare ChangeÓ The Essay Analyzed Exercise 7. Using Sources Why Use Sources? Choosing a Topic Finding Material Interviewing Peers and Local Authorities Finding Quality Information on the Web Finding Articles Using Library Databases ]Locating Books Evaluating Sources A CHECKLIST FOR EVALUATING PRINT SOURCES A CHECKLIST FOR EVALUATING ELECTRONIC SOURCES Taking Notes 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 APA Format: The List of References A CHECKLIST FOR PAPERS USING SOURCES An Annotated Student Research Paper In MLA Format Theresa Washington, Why Trials Should Not Be Televised An Annotated Student Research Paper In APA Format Laura Deveau, The Role of Spirituality and Religion In Mental Health PART III. FURTHER VIEWS ON ARGUMENT 8. A Philosophers View: The Toulmin Model The Claim Grounds Warrants Backing Modal Qualifiers Rebuttals A Model Analysis Using The Toulmin Method A CHECKLIST FOR USING THE TOULMIN METHOD ]Putting the Toulmin Method to Work: Responding to an Argument ]Michael S. Dukakis and Daniel J. B. Mitchell, Raise Wages, Not Walls ]Thinking With Toulmins Method 9. A Logicians View: Deduction, Induction, Fallacies Deduction Induction Observation and Inference Probability Mills Methods Confirmation, Mechanism, and Theory Fallacies ]Fallacies of Ambiguity ]Fallacies of Presumption ]Fallacies of Relevance A CHECKLIST FOR EVALUATING AN ARGUMENT FROM A LOGICAL POINT OF VIEW Max Shulman, Love Is a Fallacy 10. A Moralists View: Ways Of Thinking Ethically Amoral Reasoning Immoral Reasoning Moral Reasoning: A Closer Look Criteria for Moral Rules A CHECKLIST FOR MORAL REASONING Peter Singer, Famine, Affluence, and Morality Garrett Hardin, Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping The Poor Randy Cohen, Three Letters (To an Ethicist) 11. A Lawyers View: Steps Toward Civic Literacy Civil and Criminal Cases Trial and Appeal Decision and Opinion Majority, Concurring, and Dissenting Opinions Facts and Law Balancing Interests A Word of Caution A CHECKLIST FOR ANALYZING LEGAL ARGUMENTS A Casebook on the Law and Society: What Rights Do the Constitution and the Bill of Rights Protect? William J. Brennan Jr. and William H. Rehnquist, Texas V. Johnson Byron R. White and John Paul Stevens, New Jersey V. T.L.O. Harry Blackmun and William H. Rehnquist, Roe V. Wade 12. A Psychologists View: Rogerian Argument Rogerian Argument: An Introduction Carl R. Rogers, Communication: Its Blocking and Its Facilitation A CHECKLIST FOR ANALYZING ROGERIAN ARGUMENT ]Jane Willy (Student Essay), Is the College Use of American Indian Mascots Racist? 13. A Literary Critics View: Arguing About Literature Interpreting Judging (or Evaluating) Theorizing A CHECKLIST FOR AN ARGUMENT ABOUT LITERATURE Examples: Two Students Interpret Robert Frosts "Mending Wall" Robert Frost, Mending Wall Jonathan Deutsch, The Deluded Speaker In Frosts ÒMending WallÓ Felicia Alonso, The Debate In Robert Frosts "Mending Wall" Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour Thinking About the Effects of Literature Plato, "The Greater Part of the Stories Current Today We Shall Have to Reject" Thinking About Government Funding for the Arts 14. A Forensic View: Oral Presentation and Debate Standard Debate Format The Audience Delivery The Talk A CHECKLIST FOR PREPARING FOR A DEBATE PART IV. A CASEBOOK ON THE STATE AND THE INDIVIDUAL 15. What Is the Ideal Society? Thomas More, From Utopia Niccol~ Machiavelli, From The Prince Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Index of Authors and Titles Index of Terms
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What about a look inside?,
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I think I'd like to buy this book, but my critical thinking tells me no. At $37, I'd like to at least see a table of contents and a few excerpts. I suggest that you provide a "Look Inside" or drastically reduce the price.
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