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Preface for Teachers (and Curious Students) to the Brief Edition | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xii |
Introduction | |
An Appeal to Students | p. 3 |
English as a Survival Skill | p. 3 |
Critical Education in Historical Perspective | p. 13 |
"An End to History" | p. 17 |
"Majoring in Debt" | p. 19 |
"Where's the Misery?" | p. 22 |
Young America Foundation's Homepage | p. 23 |
"The Voices of Dissent" | p. 25 |
What Is an Argument? What Is a Good Argument? | p. 32 |
What Is a Good Argument? | p. 33 |
"The Intellectual Free Lunch" | p. 35 |
Analysis, Synthesis, and Judgments | p. 40 |
Style and Tone, Eloquence and Moral Force | p. 42 |
Conclusion | p. 43 |
Rhetoric: A Checklist for Analyzing Your Own and Others' Arguments | p. 44 |
A Historical-Causal Analysis of "The White Problem" | p. 49 |
Definitions and Criteria of Critical Thinking | p. 54 |
Critical Thinking and Cultural Literacy | p. 56 |
Making Connections | p. 57 |
Dialogue in Critical Thinking and Literature | p. 58 |
Recursiveness, Cumulativeness, and Levels of Meaning | p. 59 |
Drawing the Line and Establishing Proportion | p. 61 |
Avoiding Oversimplification and Recognizing Complexity | p. 62 |
Reading Between the Lines | p. 64 |
Irony and Paradox | p. 66 |
"My Dungeon Shook" | p. 69 |
"A Noiseless Patient Spider" | p. 72 |
"Can Patriotism Be Compassionate?" | p. 73 |
Semantics in Rhetoric and Critical Thinking | p. 78 |
Denotation and Connotation | p. 79 |
Definition and Denotation in Argument | p. 79 |
Connotation in Argument: "Cleans" and "Dirties" | p. 80 |
Euphemism | p. 83 |
Abstract and Concrete Language | p. 84 |
Unconcretized Abstractions | p. 85 |
Literal and Figurative Language | p. 85 |
Literal and Figurative Language in Literature | p. 86 |
Summary: Applying Semantic Analysis | p. 88 |
A Semantic Calculator for Bias in Rhetoric | p. 88 |
"When Words Cheapen Life" | p. 89 |
"Framing the Issues" | p. 90 |
"Look Behind Statistics for Changing Definitions" | p. 94 |
Writing Argumentative Papers | p. 97 |
Prewriting | p. 98 |
Writing | p. 98 |
Postwriting | p. 102 |
Locating and Evaluating Sources | p. 103 |
A Model of the Writing Process in a Student Paper | p. 105 |
from The Beauty Myth | p. 116 |
"The Backlash Myth" | p. 120 |
Attaining an Open Mind: Overcoming Psychological Obstacles to Critical Thinking | |
From Cocksure Ignorance to Thoughtful Uncertainty: Viewpoint, Bias, and Fairness-Culturally Conditioned Assumptions and Centrisms | p. 125 |
Relativism and Commitment | p. 127 |
Biased and Unbiased Viewpoints: The ESBYODS Principle | p. 128 |
Acknowledge Your Own and Opposing Viewpoints | p. 130 |
Rogerian Argument, Believers and Doubters | p. 130 |
Culturally Conditioned Assumptions and Centrisms | p. 131 |
Totems and Taboos | p. 131 |
Ethnocentrism | p. 134 |
American Ethnocentrism | p. 136 |
"Battle over Patriotism Curriculum" | p. 136 |
Questioning Capitalism | p. 140 |
Phallocentrism | p. 144 |
Other Centrisms | p. 145 |
from A Room of One's Own | p. 147 |
"Anti-Capitalism in Five Minutes or Less" | p. 147 |
Overgeneralization, Stereotyping, and Prejudice | p. 153 |
Prejudice | p. 154 |
Class Prejudice | p. 155 |
Reverse Prejudice | p. 160 |
"An Unexpected Education at St. Anthony's" | p. 162 |
"Life on the Expense Account" | p. 163 |
"Dozens of Billionaires Receive Ag Handouts" | p. 165 |
"Wal-Mart: Rise of the Goliath" | p. 166 |
Authoritarianism and Conformity, Rationalization and Compartmentalization | p. 171 |
from Network | p. 174 |
Rationalization, Compartmentalized Thinking, and Double Standards | p. 177 |
Other Defense Mechanisms | p. 180 |
from 1984 | p. 181 |
"On the Merits" | p. 182 |
"Greens Dodge Links to Unabomber" | p. 184 |
Elements of Argumentative Rhetoric | |
Some Key Terms in Logic and Argumentation | p. 191 |
Deductive and Inductive Arguments | p. 191 |
Implications and Inferences | p. 199 |
Setting the Agenda | p. 199 |
Tone and Style | p. 202 |
Polemics | p. 203 |
Ground Rules for Polemicists | p. 203 |
"Vouchers, Choice: Opposing Views" | p. 204 |
"Chicken Little Calling Out, 'Global Warming!'" | p. 205 |
"Closing the Wealth Gap" | p. 206 |
Logical and Rhetorical Fallacies | p. 211 |
Glossary of Logical and Rhetorical Fallacies | p. 212 |
Causal Analysis | p. 222 |
"Ya Got Trouble" | p. 224 |
"Other People's Children: North Lawndale and the South Side of Chicago" | p. 226 |
"Crisis in American Education" | p. 234 |
Uses and Misuses of Emotional Appeal | p. 242 |
Appeals to "Cleans" and "Dirties" | p. 242 |
Puff Pieces and Hatchet Jobs | p. 243 |
"Bunker Hunt's Greatest Investment" | p. 244 |
Predictable Patterns of Wartime Rhetoric: Appeals to Fear and Pity | p. 250 |
"The War Prayer" | p. 257 |
"The Real War 1939-1945" | p. 259 |
"War Is the Supreme Drug," An Interview with Author Chris Hedges | p. 260 |
Thinking Critically About the Rhetoric of Politics and Mass Media | |
Thinking Critically About Political Rhetoric | p. 267 |
Political Semantics | p. 267 |
Liberalism, Conservatism, Democrat, Republican | p. 269 |
Socialism, Communism, Marxism | p. 270 |
The World Political Spectrum | p. 271 |
The American Political Spectrum | p. 274 |
A Guide to Political Terms and Positions | p. 274 |
Notes on the Guide to Political Terms and Positions | p. 279 |
Predictable Patterns of Political Rhetoric | p. 283 |
A Note on Twenty-First Century Modifications to Table 13.1 | p. 284 |
Political Viewpoints in Sources | p. 285 |
"If We Decided to Tax the Rich" | p. 290 |
"The Intellectual Class War" | p. 294 |
"Fascism Anyone?" | p. 297 |
Thinking Critically About Mass Media | p. 303 |
Do the Media Give People What They Want? | p. 304 |
Are News Media Objective? What Are Their Biases? | p. 308 |
The Debate over Political Bias in Media | p. 309 |
Conclusion | p. 319 |
"The Illiberal Media" | p. 320 |
"Networks Need a Reality Check" | p. 323 |
"Liberal Hate-Speech" | p. 325 |
"Matthews vs. McNulty" | p. 328 |
"Outfoxed Tweaks Rupert Murdoch's Mayhem-isphere" | p. 329 |
Assignment for a Paper | p. 333 |
Deception Detection: Varieties of Special Interests and Propaganda | p. 334 |
Special Interests, Conflict of Interest, and Special Pleading | p. 334 |
Lobbying and Public Relations | p. 337 |
Varieties of Propaganda | p. 339 |
Invective and Smearing | p. 340 |
Government Public Relations; the Military-Industrial-Media Complex | p. 341 |
"The Historic Power of Special Interests" | p. 344 |
"When Money Talks" | p. 346 |
"Flack Attack" | p. 347 |
60 Minutes, "Confessions of a Tobacco Lobbyist" | p. 351 |
Putting It All Together in a Long Paper | |
A Case Study: Rhetoric and the Wealth Gap | p. 361 |
Goldberg versus Chait on Taxes | p. 362 |
"The Rich Aren't Made of Money" | p. 362 |
"A Very Special Kind of Math" | p. 363 |
Sklar versus the Wall Street Journal | p. 368 |
"Billionaires Up, America Down" | p. 368 |
Wall Street Journal "Movin' On Up: A Treasury Study Refutes Populist Hokum About 'Income Inequality'" | p. 369 |
Analyzing Statistical Tricks | p. 373 |
Summary of Suspicious Statistical Arguments | p. 376 |
An Outline of Conservative and Leftist Arguments on the Rich, the Poor, and the Middle Class | p. 376 |
Collecting and Evaluating Opposing Sources: Writing the Research Paper | p. 384 |
Assignment for an Annotated Bibliography and Working Outline | p. 385 |
Sample Annotated Bibliography Entry | p. 385 |
Sample Working Outline | p. 386 |
Sample Research Paper | p. 388 |
Documentation and Research Resources | p. 389 |
Documentation | p. 389 |
Works Cited Section | p. 390 |
Research Resources | p. 392 |
Index | p. 393 |
Credits | p. 403 |
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