Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A Brief Guide to Argument

Sylvan Barnet; Hugo Bedau

ISBN 10: 0312459874 / ISBN 13: 9780312459871

Published by Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A Brief Guide to Argument
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312459874
• ISBN 13: 9780312459871
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 1.46 pounds

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Synopsis

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing is a compact but thorough guide to critical thinking and argumentation. Comprising the text portion of the widely adoptedCurrent Issues and Enduring Questions, it draws on the authors’ dual expertise in effective persuasive writing and rigorous critical thinking. It helps 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, it is an extraordinarily versatile text. This affordable guide can stand alone or supplement a larger anthology of readings.Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing has been revised to address current student interests and trends in argument, research, and writing.

About the Author

SYLVAN 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 university’s 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. Martin’s, 2002).