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LONGMAN TOPICS are brief, thought-provoking readers on a single complex, compelling, topic. Featuring about 30 full-length reading selections, these volumes are generally half the size and half the cost of standard composition readers.
Legends, Lore, and Lies: A Skeptic's Stance presents intriguing readings in five sections-urban legends, alternative medicine, the media's role in public gullibility, psychics and the paranormal, and pseudo science-to demonstrate the importance of critical examination and the differences between an opinion or assertion and a supported claim.
Legends, Lore, and Lies offers a wealth of features, including
- Explorations of the powers and limits of skepticism in understanding topics like urban legends and pseudoscience that often are awarded uncritical acceptance in our culture.
- An excellent explanation of skepticism, along with a number of tools that every reader can use to become a critical consumer of information.
- A handful of "believers" point-of-view readings, which students are encouraged to examine with the tools they acquire throughout the text.
- A variety of pedagogical tools including brief author biographies and questions preceding and following the readings that function as writing and discussion prompts.
- End-of-chapter synthesis questions that provide writing suggestions for longer research and inquiry papers.
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- Title Legends, Lore, and Lies: A Skeptic's Stance, a Longman Topics Reader
- Author Joseph Calabrese
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pearson
- Publication date November 3, 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780321439246 / 0321439244
- Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.28 x 6.36 x 0.53 in (21.03 x 16.15 x 1.35 cm)
- Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
- Library of Congress subjects Parapsychology, Critical thinking
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006050718
- Dewey Decimal Code 808.042
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