xx, 412 pages : 21 cm Includes bibliographical references and index Part one: from critical thinking to argument and research -- Critical thinking -- 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 -- Using sources -- Part two: further views on argument -- A philosopher's view: the Toulmin Model -- A logician's view: deduction, induction, fallacies -- A psychologist's view: Rogerian argument -- Index of terms