From the Book - Eleventh edition.
Critical reading: getting started
Critical reading: getting deeper into arguments
Visual rhetoric: thinking about images as arguments
Writing an analysis of an argument
Developing an argument of your own
A philosopher's view : the Toulmin model
A logician's view : deduction, induction, fallacies
A psychologist's view : Rogerian argument
A literary critic's view: arguing about literature
A debater's view: individual oral presentations and debate
Student loans : should some indebtedness be forgiven?
Technology in the classroom: useful or distracting?
The local food movement : is it a better way to eat?
The current state of childhood: is "helicopter parenting" or "free-range childhood" better for kids?
Genetic modification of human beings : is it acceptable?
Mandatory military service: should it be required?
College education : what is its purpose?
Race and police violence: how do we solve the problem?
Junk food : should the government regulate our intake?
Online versus IRL: how has social networking changed how we relate to one another?
Immigration: what is to be done?
The carceral state: why are so many Americans in jail?
American exceptionalism: how should the United States teach about its past?
What is the ideal society?
How free is the will of the individual within society?
