Ebook: A Workbook for Arguments: A Complete Course in Critical Thinking

• The entire text of Rulebook, supplemented with extensive further explanations and exercises.

• Homework exercises adapted from a wide range of arguments from newspapers, philosophical texts, literature, movies, videos, and other sources.

• Practical advice to help students succeed when applying the Rulebook's rules to the examples in the homework exercises.

• Suggestions for further practice, outlining activities that students can do by themselves or with classmates to improve their skills.

• Detailed instructions for in-class activities and take-home assignments designed to engage students.

• An appendix on mapping arguments, giving students a solid introduction to this vital skill in constructing complex and multi-step arguments and evaluating them.

• 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.