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This brief introduction to making effective arguments helps readers to understand the basics of sound reasoning and to learn how to use it to persuade others. Practical, inexpensive, and easy-to-read, the book enables students in a wide variety of courses to improve the clarity of their writing and public speaking. It equips readers to formulate firmly grounded, clearly articulated, and logically arranged arguments, avoid fallacious thinking, and discover how to reason well. This supplemental text is especially suitable for use in Christian colleges and seminaries and includes classroom discussion questions.

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Contents
Introduction: Why Arguments Are Good
1. The Basics of Good Arguments
2. Reasoning and Logic
3. Fallacies
4. Belief, Fact, and Opinion
5. Defining Your Terms
6. Drawing Analogies
7. Cause and Effect
8. On Good Authority
9. Making Your Case
Case Studies
Glossary
Index

Good Arguments

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    A Paperback / softback by Richard A. Jr. Holland, Benjamin K. Forrest

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      Publisher Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group
      Published 22 August 2017
      ISBN-13 9780801097799
      978-0801097799
      ISBN-10 0801097797
      Also in:
      Religion and beliefs Religious instruction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This brief introduction to making effective arguments helps readers to understand the basics of sound reasoning and to learn how to use it to persuade others. Practical, inexpensive, and easy-to-read, the book enables students in a wide variety of courses to improve the clarity of their writing and public speaking. It equips readers to formulate firmly grounded, clearly articulated, and logically arranged arguments, avoid fallacious thinking, and discover how to reason well. This supplemental text is especially suitable for use in Christian colleges and seminaries and includes classroom discussion questions.

      Table of Contents
      Contents
      Introduction: Why Arguments Are Good
      1. The Basics of Good Arguments
      2. Reasoning and Logic
      3. Fallacies
      4. Belief, Fact, and Opinion
      5. Defining Your Terms
      6. Drawing Analogies
      7. Cause and Effect
      8. On Good Authority
      9. Making Your Case
      Case Studies
      Glossary
      Index

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