The Practice of Argumentation: Effective Reasoning in Communication

by David Zarefsky

Book Overview

This book uses different perspectives on argumentation to show how we create arguments, test them, attack and defend them, and deploy them effectively to justify beliefs and influence others. David Zarefsky uses a range of contemporary examples to show how arguments work and how they can be put together, beginning with simple individual arguments, and proceeding to the construction and analysis of complex cases incorporating different structures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110768143X
• ISBN13: 9781107681439
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.0"