A Rulebook for Arguments

• Author : Anthony Weston
• Publisher : Hackett Publishing
• Release : 23 March 2023

A Rulebook for Arguments is a succinct introduction to the art of writing and assessing arguments, organized around specific rules, each illustrated and explained soundly but briefly. This widely popular primer--translated into eight languages--remains the first choice in all disciplines for writers who seek straightforward guidance about how to assess arguments and how to cogently construct them. The fourth edition offers a revamped and more tightly focused approach to extended arguments, a new chapter on oral arguments, and updated examples

• Author : Anthony Weston
• Publisher : Hackett Publishing
• Release : 01 February 2018

From academic writing to personal and public discourse, the need for good arguments and better ways of arguing is greater than ever before. This timely fifth edition of A Rulebook for Arguments sharpens an already-classic text, adding updated examples and a new chapter on public debates that provides rules for the etiquette and ethics of sound public dialogue as well as clear and sound thinking in general.

• Author : Everest Media,
• Publisher : Everest Media LLC
• Release : 04 May 2022

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The first step in making an argument is to ask yourself what you are trying to prove. Your conclusion is the statement for which you are giving reasons. The statements that give your reasons are your premises. #2 Arguments are like any other form of movement. They may be graceful or clumsy, sharp or confused, clean or muddled. You want clarity and efficiency, even grace if you

• Author : Anthony Weston
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 23 March 2023

From academic writing to personal and public discourse, the need for good arguments and better ways of arguing is greater than ever before. This timely fifth edition of A Rulebook for Arguments sharpens an already-classic text, adding updated examples and a new chapter on public debates that provides rules for the etiquette and ethics of sound public dialogue as well as clear and sound thinking in general.

• Author : George Pullman
• Publisher : Hackett Publishing
• Release : 05 March 2015

"Pullman offers his readers essential insights into how humans reason and make decisions. Both concise and far-reaching, his work teaches us how to challenge intuitive logic and examine the processes for deliberative reasoning. This text will prove foundational for students in their intellectual journey toward the development of real skills in critical thinking. By pointing to simple yet profound examples, Pullman's text is both readable and provocative as it challenges us to consider the very mechanisms by which we understand

• Author : David R. Morrow,Anthony Weston
• Publisher : Hackett Publishing
• Release : 18 November 2019

David Morrow and Anthony Weston build on Weston's acclaimed A Rulebook for Arguments to offer a complete textbook for a course in critical thinking or informal logic. Features of the book include: Homework exercises adapted from a wide range of actual arguments from newspapers, philosophical texts, literature, movies, YouTube videos, and other sources.Practical advice to help students succeed when applying the Rulebook's rules.Suggestions for further practice that outline activities students can do by themselves or with classmates to

• Author : Sarah Birrell Ivory
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 11 January 2021

Becoming a critical thinker is a straight-forward, reassuring, and complete guide to critical thinking - one that helps you to understand critical thinking and develop the skills needed to employ it. This book supports the reader to not only think critically, but to do so independently, as a student, professional, and global citizen.The book has a clear three-part structure: firstly, examining what critical thinking is; secondly, exploring the three overarching aims of critical thinking; and finally, focussing on how

• Author : Scott Buckler,Harriett Moore
• Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
• Release : 25 March 2023

A comprehensive undergraduate textbook on research methods in education combining a broad overview of principles and practice with practical guidance to support your own educational research projects.

• Author : Dave Rush
• Publisher : SAGE
• Release : 29 April 2023

A practical guide on how to produce and engage with arguments

• Author : Susan Wise Bauer,Jessie Wise
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release : 09 August 2016

Is your child getting lost in the system, becoming bored, losing his or her natural eagerness to learn? If so, it may be time to take charge of your child’s education—by doing it yourself. The Well-Trained Mind will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school—one that will train him or her to read, to think, to understand, to be well-rounded and curious about

• Author : Susan Wise Bauer,Jessie Wise
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release : 04 May 2009

"If you're a parent who has decided to educate your children yourself, this book is the first you should buy."—?Washington Times The Well-Trained Mind will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school—one that will train him or her to read, to think, to ?understand?, to be well-rounded and curious about learning. Veteran home educators Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer outline the classical pattern

• Author : Brad J. Kallenberg
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release : 28 January 2013

Both engineering and human living take place in a messy world, one chock full of unknowns and contingencies. "Design reasoning" is the way engineers cope with real-world contingency. Because of the messiness, books about engineering design cannot have "ideal solutions" printed in the back in the same way that mathematics textbooks can. Design reasoning does not produce a single, ideally correct answer to a given problem but rather generates a wide variety of rival solutions that vie against each other

• Author : Stanley Chodorow,Gordon Harvey
• Publisher : Hackett Publishing
• Release : 01 October 2012

Now available together as a set for a discounted price: Writing A Successful Research Paper: A Simple Approach, by Stanley Chodorow, with, Writing with Sources, (Second Edition): A Guide for Students, by Gordon Harvey. Writing a Successful Research Paper is a brief, practical guide that offers a clear and comprehensive strategy for conceptualizing, approaching, and executing the task of writing a research paper in the humanities and social sciences. In addition, it provides: a critical and process-oriented approach to the

• Author : Stanley Chodorow
• Publisher : Hackett Publishing
• Release : 01 December 2011

This brief, practical guide offers a clear and comprehensive strategy for conceptualizing, approaching, and executing the task of writing a research paper in the humanities and social sciences. In addition, it provides: a critical and process-oriented approach to the tasks of topic selection, formulation of the research question, thesis development, and argumentation. judiciously selected examples drawn from a broad range of disciplines. concise treatment of the aims, methods, and conventions of scholarly research, including the opportunities and pitfalls of Internet

• Author : Andrew Bailey
• Publisher : Broadview Press
• Release : 08 July 2011

First Philosophy: God, Mind, and Freedom brings together classic and ground-breaking readings on metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of religion. Andrew Bailey's highly regarded introductory anthology has been revised and updated in this new edition. The comprehensive introductory material for each chapter and selection remains, and new sections on philosophical puzzles and paradoxes and philosophical terminology have been added. New to this edition are readings from Alvin Plantinga, Frank Jackson, David Chalmers, A.J. Ayer, Bernard Williams,