A Workbook for Arguments

A Workbook for Arguments builds on Anthony Weston's Rulebook for Arguments to provide a complete textbook for a course in critical thinking or informal logic. Workbook includes:

• 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.