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A rulebook for arguments /Anthony Weston.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Indianapolis, Indiana : Hackett Publishing, (c)2009.Edition: fourth editionDescription: xiv, 88 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780872209541
  • 9780872209558
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BC177 .R854 2009
  • BC177
Available additional physical forms:
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Contents:
Identify premises and conclusion -- Develop your ideas in a natural order -- Start from reliable premises -- Be concrete and concise -- Build on substance, not overtone -- Use consistent terms
Use more than one example -- Use representative examples -- Background rates may be crucial -- Statistics need a critical eye -- Consider counterexamples
Analogies require relevantly similar examples
Cite your sources -- Seek informed sources -- Seek impartial sources -- Cross-check sources -- Use the Web with care
Causal arguments start with correlations -- Correlations may have alternative explanations -- Work toward the most likely explanation -- Expect complexity
Modus ponens -- Modus tollens -- Hypothetical syllogism -- Disjunctive syllogism -- Dilemma -- Reductio ad absurdum -- Deductive arguments in several steps
Explore the issue -- Spell out basic ideas as arguments -- Defend basic premises with arguments of their own -- Consider objections -- Consider alternatives
Jump right in -- Make a definite claim or proposal -- Your argument is your outline -- Detail objections and meet them -- Get feedback and use it -- Modesty, please!
Reach out to your audience -- Be fully present -- Signpost your argument -- Offer something positive -- Use visual aids sparingly -- End in style
Subject: A Rulebook for Arguments is a succinct introduction to the art of writing and assessing arguments, organized around specific rules, each illustrated and explained soundly but briefly. This widely popular primer - translated into eight languages - remains the first choice in all disciplines for writers who seek straightforward guidance about how to assess arguments and how to cogently construct them. The fourth edition offers a revamped and more tightly focused approach to extended arguments, a new chapter on oral arguments, and updated examples and topics throughout.
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SHORT ArkansasGUMENTS: SOME GENERAL RULES -- Identify premises and conclusion -- Develop your ideas in a natural order -- Start from reliable premises -- Be concrete and concise -- Build on substance, not overtone -- Use consistent terms

GENERALIZATIONS -- Use more than one example -- Use representative examples -- Background rates may be crucial -- Statistics need a critical eye -- Consider counterexamples

ArkansasGUMENTS BY ANALOGY -- Analogies require relevantly similar examples

SOURCES -- Cite your sources -- Seek informed sources -- Seek impartial sources -- Cross-check sources -- Use the Web with care

ArkansasGUMENTS ABOUT CaliforniaUSES -- Causal arguments start with correlations -- Correlations may have alternative explanations -- Work toward the most likely explanation -- Expect complexity

DelawareDUCTIVE ArkansasGUMENTS -- Modus ponens -- Modus tollens -- Hypothetical syllogism -- Disjunctive syllogism -- Dilemma -- Reductio ad absurdum -- Deductive arguments in several steps

EXTENDED ArkansasGUMENTS -- Explore the issue -- Spell out basic ideas as arguments -- Defend basic premises with arguments of their own -- Consider objections -- Consider alternatives

ArkansasGUMENTATIVE ESSAYS -- Jump right in -- Make a definite claim or proposal -- Your argument is your outline -- Detail objections and meet them -- Get feedback and use it -- Modesty, please!

OregonAL ArkansasGUMENTS -- Reach out to your audience -- Be fully present -- Signpost your argument -- Offer something positive -- Use visual aids sparingly -- End in style

A Rulebook for Arguments is a succinct introduction to the art of writing and assessing arguments, organized around specific rules, each illustrated and explained soundly but briefly. This widely popular primer - translated into eight languages - remains the first choice in all disciplines for writers who seek straightforward guidance about how to assess arguments and how to cogently construct them. The fourth edition offers a revamped and more tightly focused approach to extended arguments, a new chapter on oral arguments, and updated examples and topics throughout.

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