A Workbook for Arguments: A Complete Course in Critical Thinking - Softcover

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• Updated and improved homework exercises&;nearly one third are new&;to ensure that the examples continue to resonate with students.
• Increased coverage of scientific reasoning, demonstrating how scientific reasoning dovetails with critical thinking more generally
• Two new activities in which students analyze arguments in their original form, as provided in brief selections from the original texts.

• The entire text of Rulebook, supplemented with extensive explanations and exercises.
• Homework exercises adapted from a wide range of arguments in a wide variety of sources.
• Practical advice to help students succeed.
• Model answers to odd-numbered problems, including commentaries on the strengths and weaknesses of selected sample answers and further discussion of some of the substantive intellectual, philosophical, or ethical issues they raise.
• Detailed instructions for in-class activities and take-home assignments.
• An appendix on mapping arguments, giving students a solid introduction to this vital skill in constructing complex and multi-step arguments and evaluating them.

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