The rhetoric of reason : writing and the attractions of argument

The rhetoric of reason : writing and the attractions of argument / James Crosswhite.

Responding to skeptics within higher education and critics without, James Crosswhite argues powerfully that the core of a college education should be learning to write a reasoned argument. A trained philosopher and director of a university-wide composition program, Crosswhite challenges his readers...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crosswhite, James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1996.
Series:Rhetoric of the human sciences.
Subjects:
Reasoning.
Logic.
PHILOSOPHY > Logic.
Logic
Reasoning
Argumentation
Schriftlicher Ausdruck
Rhetorik
Logik
Argumentatieleer.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 End of Philosophy and the Resurgence of Rhetoric
  • Ch. 2 Claiming
  • Ch. 3 Questioning
  • Ch. 4 Argument and Conflict
  • Ch. 5 Audiences and Arguments
  • Ch. 6 Being Unreasonable: A Rhetoric of Fallacies
  • Ch. 7 Argument and Ideology: Evaluating Argumentation
  • Ch. 8 Argument as Inquiry
  • Ch. 9 Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Aims of Higher Education.

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