Preface
Acknowledgments
To Instructors
CHAPTER 1: What Is Critical Thinking?
Writing a Constitution
More than Religion by Emi Fujii
Angst by Joey Gu
A Purpose for Everything by Shane Johnson
Writing a World View
Disease by Sean Stokes
Too Much Money by Michael Juhn
The Global Toilet by Joey Gu
The Speech the Graduates Didn't Hear by Jacob Neusner
The Damned Human Race by Mark Twain
The Uncritical American; or, Nobody's from Missouri Any More
by Wayne C. Booth
Lessons in Critical Thinking: or, an Argument Is Only Pointless if We Have the Experience But Miss the Meaning
CHAPTER 2: Methodologies for Critical Thinkers
Activities of Thinking
Component Parts
Your Reality or Mine?
The Toulmin Model vs. Aristotle's Deductive Syllogism
CHAPTER 3: Identifying Claims
Claims of Value
Burn, Baby, Burn! by Jay Rubin
Claims of Fact
The Mistake of the Millennium by Paul O'Brien
Claims of Policy
We Make Money by Making You Feel Ugly by Estelle Hartson
Controlling an Argument
Controlling a Written Argument
CHAPTER 4: Issue/Problem Papers
Format for I/P Papers
How to Refute the Opposition
Booth Gets Graded by Susan Harwood
Grade-Two Thinking by Joey Gu
Reasons to War by Amalia Galvez
Savages? by Emi Fujii
I/P Paper Topics
CHAPTER 5: Writing Argument Papers
How to Write an Argument Paper
Outline for Position and Proposal Papers
Class, Not Race by Michael Juhn
Affirmative Action? No! by Dirk Ellington
Who Should Survive? by Susan Harwood
Critical Whistleblowers by Thuy Nguyen
Defining Violence by David Lemus
It's Not Just The Television by Susan Harwood
CHAPTER 6: Whistle Blowers
Scenarios for Whistle Blowers
The Allegory of the Cave by Plato
CHAPTER 7: Common Fallacies
False Analogy
Ad Hominem
Hasty Generalization
Faulty Use of Authority
Post Hoc or Doubtful Cause
Dicto Simpliciter
False Dilemma (Either-or Arguments)
Two Wrongs Make a Right
Ad Ignorantiam (Appeal to Ignorance)
Slippery Slope
Love Is a Fallacy by Max Shulman
CHAPTER 8: The Satire
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
Dating Your Mom by Ian Frazier
Why Doesn't GM Sell Crack? by Michael Moore
How to Raise a Pimp by Darryl L. Fortson, M.D.
Yo! Like What's Wrong Wif Ma Rap? by Gail Rankin
Praising the SAT by Kriselle Gan
CHAPTER 9: The Debate
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
Gatecrashers by Michael Kinsley
We Should Always Lift Our Lamp to the World by Susan Roosevelt Weld and
William F. Weld
Immigration Straight-Talk by William Raspberry
Unchecked Immigration by Peter Brimelow
Geniuses from Abroad by George Gilder
How about Home-Grown Geniuses? by Mark Krikorian
Get Out of Dodge! by Wanda Coleman
Additional Readings
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
The Witch by Shirley Jackson
Should Princes Tell the Truth? by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
Incivility in the Classroom Breeds Education Lite by Paul A.
