| Preface |
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| I. DISCOVERING THE ISSUES |
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1. Introduction: A Case Study of Sherlock Holmes |
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1.1 "Silver Blaze" Study Questions |
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1.2 "The Adventure of Silver Blaze" |
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1.4 The Rhetorical Situation |
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1.5 A Hint of What's to Come |
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2. Defining a Topic for Thinking and Writing |
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2.2 Placing Your Topic in Context |
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2.6 Putting It All Together |
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3.1 The Case of the Spelunkers |
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3.5 Generating Backward from the Opposition |
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3.7 After Generating: Forming Hypotheses |
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3.8 Beginning to Put Your Case Together: A Checklist |
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| II DISCOVERING THE BEST ARGUMENTS |
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4. Identifying Arguments and Their Structures |
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4.1 Identifying Arguments |
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4.2 Displaying the Structure of Arguments |
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5. Reconstructing Arguments |
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5.2 Supplying Missing Parts |
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5.3 Case Study: Sample Analysis and Reconstruction |
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6. Evaluating Arguments I: Deductive Reasoning |
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6.2 Deductive versus Inductive Reasoning |
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6.4 Techniques for Showing Invalidity |
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7. Evaluating Arguments II: Inductive Reasoning |
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7.2 Generalizing from a Sample |
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8.1 Have You Defined the Context Clearly?: Fallacies Relating to Context |
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8.2 Have You Considered Important Views on Your Topic?: Fallacies Relating to Inadequate or Improper Use of Sources |
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8.3 Have You Clearly Specified Your Position?: Fallacies Relating to Specifying Conclusions |
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8.4 Have Your Selected Acceptable Evidence?: Fallacies Relating to Unacceptable Premises |
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8.5 Have You Supplied Premises That Together Provide Sufficient Support for Your Conclusion?: Fallacies Relating to Insufficient Grounds |
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8.6 Have You Considered Your Audience?: Fallacies Relating to Audience |
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8.7 Are Your Ideas Expressed Clearly and Accurately?: Fallacies Relating to Language |
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| III PUBLIC WRITING |
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9.2 Formality and Informality |
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224 | (7) |
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9.3 A Modern "High Style" |
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237 | (8) |
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10.1 Writing for Understanding |
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246 | (2) |
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10.2 Introduce Your Readers to Your Work |
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10.3 Organize for Your Readers |
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10.4 Incorporate and Cite Others' Work |
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| Appendix: Solutions to Selected Exercises |
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| 4.1 Identifying Arguments |
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281 | (1) |
| 4.2 Diagramming Arguments |
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282 | (2) |
| 5.1 Ambiguity |
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284 | (1) |
| 5.2 Missing Premises |
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285 | (1) |
| 6.4 Deductive Validity |
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286 | (1) |
| 7.1 Analogies |
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287 | (2) |
| 7.2 Generalization |
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289 | (1) |
| 7.3 Explanation |
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| 8 Fallacies |
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293 | (2) |
| 9.3 Sentence Combining |
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295 | (1) |
| 10.4 Incorporating and Citing Others' Work |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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