Current Issues and Enduring Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking and Argument, with Readings

Barnet, Sylvan

ISBN 10: 1457622602 / ISBN 13: 9781457622601

Editore: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013

Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Codice articolo 00082528070

Riassunto:

The unique collaborative effort of a professor of English and a professor of philosophy, Current Issues and Enduring Questions is an extensive resource for teaching argument, persuasive writing, and rigorous critical thinking. This extraordinarily versatile text and reader continues to address current student interests and trends in argument, research, and writing.Its comprehensive coverage of classic and contemporary approaches to argument includes Aristotelian, Toulmin, and a range of alternative views, including a new chapter on analyzing and writing about arguments in popular culture.

Readings on contemporary controversies (including student loan debt, locavorism, and the boundaries of online privacy) and classical philosophical questions (such as How free is the will of the individual?) are sure to spark student interest and lively discussion and writing, and new e-Pages take advantage of what the Web can do by including videos, speeches, film trailers, and other multimodal arguments.

Informazioni sull?autore: Sylvan Barnet, professor of English and former director of writing at Tufts University, is the most prolific and consistently successful college English textbook author in the country. His several texts on writing and his numerous anthologies for introductory composition and literature courses have remained leaders in their field through many editions.Hugo Bedau, professor of philosophy at Tufts University, has served as chair of the philosophy department and chair of the university’s committee on College Writing. An internationally respected expert on the death penalty, and on moral, legal, and political philosophy, he has written or edited a number of books on these topics. He is the author of Thinking and Writing about Philosophy, Second Edition (Bedford/St. Martin’s).

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Titolo: Current Issues and Enduring Questions: A ...
Casa editrice: Bedford/St. Martin's
Data di pubblicazione: 2013
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Good