Reading and writing for civic literacy : the critical citizen's guide to argumentative rhetoric

著者

Donald Lazere

（Cultural politics & the promise of democracy / edited by Henry A. Giroux）

Paradigm Publishers, [2005] , , c2005

Content Type: text (ncrcontent), Media Type: unmediated (ncrmedia), Carrier Type: volume (ncrcarrier)

Description based on 3rd printing, 2006

Includes index

An appeal to students
What is an argument? what is a good argument?
Definitions and criteria of critical thinking
Writing argumentative papers
Viewpoint, bias, and fairness : from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty
Questioning culturally conditioned assumptions and ethnocentrism
Overgeneralization, stereotyping and prejudice
Authoritarianism and conformity, rationalization and compartmentalization
Semantics in rhetoric and critical thinking
Avoiding oversimplification and recognizing complexity
Some key terms in logic and argumentation
Logical and rhetorical fallacies
Causal analysis
Uses and misuses of emotional appeal
Thinking critically about political rhetoric
Thinking critically about mass media
Special interests, conflict of interest, special pleading
Varieties of propaganda
Advertising and hype
A case study : the rich, the poor and the middle class
Collecting and evaluating opposing sources : wriring the research paper
Documentation
Research resources