Critical Thinking and Communication

Stresses the importance of argumentation in everyday life Critical Thinking and Communication, 7/e, encourages students to develop skills in constructing and refuting arguments in contexts ranging from informal conversations to structured debates. The authors stress the importance of argumentation in everyday life while building student competence and critical awareness. Through exercises and examples, students learn to create arguments and develop, understand, and interpret extended cases.

Cover -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Section I : Developing a Conceptual Framework for Argument -- Chapter 1 : Arguing Critically -- Critical Thought -- Cycle of Critical Thought -- Critical Thinking as a Skill -- Argumentation and Argument -- Process -- Characteristics -- Argument Contexts -- Fields -- Characteristics -- Standards -- Spheres -- Technical -- Personal -- Public -- Using Argument Contexts -- Using Fields to Interpret Contexts -- Using Spheres to Interpret Contexts -- Summary -- Exercises -- Notes -- Chapter 2 : Co-Orienting Argument -- Perspectives

Logical Perspective -- Dialectical Perspective -- Rhetorical Perspective -- How Perspectives are Used -- Arguer-Based Arguments -- Formal Logic -- Syllogism -- Categorical Syllogism -- Disjunctive Syllogism -- Hypothetical Syllogism -- Enthymeme -- Toulmin Model -- Parts of the Model -- Using the Model -- A Co-Orientational Approach -- Developing the Model -- Level of Dispute -- Role of Reasoning -- Argument Chains -- Argument Situations -- Argument Relationships -- Summary -- Exercises -- Notes -- Chapter 3 : The Impact of Values and Culture on Argument -- Culture and Argumentation

Role of Culture -- Multicult…