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

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing is a compact but complete guide to critical thinking and argumentation. Comprising the text portion of the widely adopted Current Issues and Enduring Questions, it draws on the authors’ dual expertise in effective persuasive writing and comprehensive rhetorical strategies to help 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, as well as 35 readings and a casebook on the state and the individual, it is an extraordinarily versatile text. This affordable guide can stand alone or supplement a larger anthology of readings.

• A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers
• Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
• The Squatter and the Don (Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage)
• Statistics: Unlocking the Power of Data
• Speak Up!: An Illustrated Guide to Public Speaking
• A Pocket Style Manual
• Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
• Jane Eyre (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
• Understanding Human Communication
• A Pocket Style Manual: 2016 MLA Update