Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy The Critical Citizen s Guide to Argumentative Rhetoric 1st Edition by Donald Lazere ISBN 978-1594510847 1594510849

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ISBN 10:  1594510849

ISBN 13: 978-1594510847

Author: Donald Lazere

‘Lazere’s [book] is heaven-sent and will provide a crucial link in the chain of understanding how conflicts are structured and, most importantly, how they can be rationally addressed – a healthy antidote to the scepticism that has become so pervasive in academic life.’ Alan Hausman, Hunter College This innovative book addresses the need for college students to develop critical reading, writing, and thinking skills for self-defence in the contentious arena of American civic rhetoric. In a groundbreaking reconception of composition theory, it presents a comprehensive critical perspective on American public discourse and practical methods for its analysis. Exercises following the text sections and readings help students understand the ideological positions and rhetorical patterns that underlie opposing viewpoints in current controversies – such as the growing inequality of wealth in America and its impact on the finances of college students – as expressed in paired sets of readings from the political left and right. Widely debated issues of whether objectivity is possible and whether there is a liberal or conservative bias in news and entertainment media, as well as in education itself, are foregrounded as topics for rhetorical analysis.

Table of contents: 

Part I: Introduction
An Appeal to Students

Good Arguments

Definitions and Criteria of Critical Thinking

Semantics in Rhetoric and Critical Thinking

Writing Argumentative Papers

Part II: Attaining an Open Mind: Overcoming Psychological Blocks to Critical Thinking
From Cocksure Ignorance to Thoughtful Uncertainty: Viewpoint, Bias, and Culturally Conditioned Assumptions

Overgeneralization, Stereotyping, and Prejudice

Authoritarianism and Conformity, Rationalization and Compartmentalization

Part III: Elements of Argumentative Rhetoric
Some Key Terms in Logic and Argumentation

Fallacies

Causal Analysis

Uses and Misuses of Emotional Appeal

Part IV: Thinking Critically about the Rhetoric of Politics and Mass Media
Thinking Critically about Political Rhetoric

Thinking Critically about Mass Media

Deception Detection: Varieties of Special Interests and Propaganda

From Reaganomics to Trumponomics: Opposing Views on Taxation and the Wealth Gap

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