The Logic of Academic Writing
Published on 7. September 2019
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-7329870-3-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Logic of Academic Writing was developed from a practical educational need, namely
teaching early-year Ph.D. students some basic ideas on how they can structure their arguments in ways
that may make sense for an academic paper to be written and consequently published. The authors' research expertise is in argumentation studies: the discipline that analyzes how arguments are produced, evaluated, and addressed, considering the pragmatic, logical, and dialectical levels. Since academic writing is characterized by supporting an original idea through proofs or arguments, the book focuses on the "logic" of writing,
that is, on the reasoning we use for structuring ideas, paragraphs, and papers...the reasoning mechanisms that we use when we develop and organize our ideas, connect them with other ideas, and support them through arguments.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7329870-3-6 (9781732987036)
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Fabrizio Macagno (Ph.D. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore,
Milan, 2008) is a researcher and invited assistant professor at the
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de
Lisboa, Portugal. His current research, between the fields of
linguistics and philosophy of language, is focused on the persuasive
use of emotive language and on the dialectical dimension of
discourse implicitness, which he analyzes within the contexts of
legal and political discourse. He applies the theoretical models
developed to the context of education, proposing methods for analyzing classroom discourse and conversation. He is the author of several papers on definition, informal fallacies, argumentation schemes, and dialogue theory published in major international peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics, Argumentation, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Informal Logic, and Pragmatics and Cognition. His most important publications include the books Argumentation Schemes (Cambridge University Press, 2008), Emotive Language in Argumentation (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation (Springer, 2017).