Critical Inquiry: The Process of Argument - Softcover

Boylan, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813344522 ISBN 13: 9780813344522

Verlag: Westview Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

This informative book is a necessary companion for anyone seeking to uncover the secret of successful persuasion: to organize, construct, and communicate arguments. It is at once comprehensive and accessible, an authoritative guide to logical thinking and effective communication. First, the text defines the nature and uses of argument, explaining how to read argument carefully. Such analysis then requires the student to reconstruct arguments in his or her own words. Finally, the reader is taught how to create a critical, reasoned response, thus constructing his or her own argument. To increase its accessibility and expand its range of application, Critical Inquiry uses (in addition to textual examples) advertisements from print media as “texts” for applying its principles to subjects outside the traditional mode of academic presentation. Throughout, carefully selected reading questions and exercises pace the reader and ensure that the material is securely grasped and successfully applied.

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Michael Boylan received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is professor of philosophy at Marymount University. He is the author of The Extinction of Desire (2007) and A Just Society (2004) in addition to nineteen other books and more than ninety articles in philosophy and literature.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Westview Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0813344522
• ISBN 13: 9780813344522
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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