Good Arguments – Making Your Case in Writing and Public Speaking

Richard a. Jr. Holland, Benjamin K. Forrest (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2017
Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group (Verlag)
978-0-8010-9779-9 (ISBN)

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Provides an introduction to arguments, helping students in a wide variety of courses understand the basics of sound reasoning and how to use it to persuade others.

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.

Richard A. Holland Jr. (PhD, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) is assistant professor of philosophy at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona. Benjamin K. Forrest (EdD, Liberty University) is associate dean of the College of General Studies and professor of Christian education at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2017
Verlagsort	Ada, MI
Sprache	englisch
Maße	141 x 225 mm
Gewicht	198 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Religionspädagogik / Katechetik
ISBN-10	0-8010-9779-7 / 0801097797
ISBN-13	978-0-8010-9779-9 / 9780801097799
Zustand	Neuware