General Note:
Revised edition of: Crossfire. 2nd ed. c1997.
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. Strategies for reading and writing arguments. Understanding persuasion: thinking like a negotiator -- Reading arguments: thinking like a critic -- Finding arguments: thinking like a writer -- Addressing audiences: thinking like a reader -- Shaping arguments: thinking like an architect -- Using evidence: thinking like an advocate -- Establishing claims: thinking like a skeptic -- Researching arguments: thinking like an investigator. 2. Dialogues. Gender matters -- Race and ethnicity -- Freedom of expression -- Media influence -- Individual rights -- Regulating relationships -- Casebook: juvenile crime, adult time? -- Casebook: teen parents: children having children? -- The Black freedom struggle: arguments that shaped history.
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