Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric
The Use of Reason in Everyday Life
8th Edition
Published on 13. August 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-534-52470-8 (ISBN)
Description
This text introduces students to good reasoning by using current examples from television, newspapers, magazines, advertisements and political institutions, with the aim of bringing the concepts alive for students and putting them into a context that they will retain and use.
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Series
Edition
8th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Belmont, CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 171 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-534-52470-8 (9780534524708)
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Book
08/2001
9th Edition
Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
€41.03
Article is exhausted; no reprint
Previous edition
Book
11/1994
7th Edition
Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
€70.75
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Content
Good and bad reasoning; background beliefs and world views; fallacious reasoning (1); fallacious reasoning (2); fallacious reasoning (3); psychological impediments to cogent reasoning - shooting ourselves in the foot; language; evaluating extended arguments; writing cogent (and persuasive) essays; advertising - selling the product; managing the news; textbooks - managing world views. Appendix: more on cogent reasoning.