1.1 What Is Critical Thinking? (I 1.2 What Is Critical Thinking? (II 1.3 What Is Critical Writing? 1.4.1 What Is the Connection Between Critical Thinking and Critical Writing? (I 1.4.2 What Is the Connection Between Critical Thinking and Critical Writing? (II 1.5 Lesson Review Language Workshop: Word Choice 2.1 What Is an Argument? (I 2.2 What Is an Argument? (II 2.3 What is the Structure of Critical Essays? (An Overview 2.4 What is the Structure of Critical Essays? (The Introduction Section 2.5 What is the Structure of Critical Essays? (The Body Section 2.6 What is the Structure of Critical Essays? (The Conclusion 2.7 Lesson Review Language Workshop: Effective Use of Verbs Lesson 3 Overview 3.1 What Is a Thesis? 3.2 Types of Theses 3.3 What Makes a Thesis Statement? (I 3.4 What Makes a Thesis Statement? (II 3.5.1 What Makes a Thesis Statement? (III 3.5.2 What Makes a Thesis Statement? (III 3.6.1 Writing Introductions (I 3.6.2 Writing Introductions (I 3.6.3 Writing Introductions (I 3.7 Writing Introductions (II 3.8 Lesson Review Language Workshop: Periodic vs Loose Sentences Lesson 4 Overview 4.1 What Is Reasoning? 4.2 All about Reasons 4.3 Oh! Evidence (I 4.4 Oh! Evidence (II 4.5 Reasoning vs Explaining 4.6 Going into Explanations 4.7 Patterns of Reasoning 4.8 Paragraph Writing—Unity 4.9 Paragraph Writing—Reasoning 4.10 Paragraph Writing—Coherence 4.11 Lesson Review Language Workshop: Use Concrete and Specific Language Lesson 5 Overview 5.1 Deductive Arguments 5.2 Inductive Arguments 5.3 Deductive Arguments vs Inductive Arguments 5.4 Deductive Arguments in Writing—Reason by Principle (I 5.5 Deductive Arguments in Writing—Reason by Principle (II 5.6 Deductive Arguments in Writing—Reason by Definition (I 5.7 Deductive Arguments in Writing—Reason by Definition (II 5.8 Lesson Review Language Workshop: Parallel Structure Lesson 6 Overview 6.1 Making Generalizations (I 6.2 Making Generalizations (II 6.3 Reasoning by Analogy (I 6.4 Reasoning by Analogy (II 6.5 Reasoning by Cause and Effect (I 6.6 Reasoning by Cause and Effect (II 6.7 Lesson Review—Employing Various Reasoning Techniques Language Workshop: Run-Ons and Commas Lesson 7 Overview 7.1 Evaluating and Improving Arguments by Principle 7.2 Evaluating and Improving Arguments by Definition 7.3 Evaluating and Improving Generalizations (I 7.4 Evaluating and Improving Generalizations (II 7.5 Evaluating and Improving Generalizations (III 7.6 Evaluating and Improving Arguments by Analogy 7.7 Evaluating and Revising Causal Reasoning (I 7.8 Evaluating and Improving Causal Reasoning (II 7.9 Lesson Review Language Workshop: Redundancies in English Sentences Lesson 8 Overview 8.1 What Is a Counter-Argument? 8.2 Writing Counter-Arguments in Critical Essays (I 8.3 Writing Counter-Arguments in Critical Essays (II 8.4 How to Rebut Conflicting Arguments (I 8.5 How to Rebut Conflicting Arguments (II 8.6 Writing Essay Conclusions 8.7 Lesson Review Language Workshop: Capitalization Language Workshop: Punctuation