By David R. Morrow
A Workbook for Arguments builds on Anthony Weston's Rulebook for Arguments to supply an entire textbook for a direction in serious pondering or casual common sense Workbook includes:
• the total textual content of Rulebook, supplemented with huge additional factors and exercises.
• Homework workouts tailored from quite a lot of arguments from newspapers, philosophical texts, literature, video clips, video clips, and different sources.
• sensible recommendation to aid scholars be triumphant while using the Rulebook's principles to the examples within the homework exercises.
• feedback for additional perform, outlining actions that scholars can do via themselves or with classmates to enhance their skills.
• specific directions for in-class actions and take-home assignments designed to interact students.
• An appendix on mapping arguments, giving scholars an effective creation to this very important ability in developing advanced and multi-step arguments and comparing them.
• version solutions to odd-numbered difficulties, together with commentaries at the strengths and weaknesses of chosen pattern solutions and additional dialogue of a few of the sizeable highbrow, philosophical, or moral matters they raise.
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