Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life
By Frank Boardman, Nancy M. Cavender, Howard Kahane
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Long the choice of instructors who want to "keep students engaged," LOGIC AND CONTEMPORARY RHETORIC: THE USE OF REASON IN EVERYDAY LIFE, Thirteenth Edition, introduces students to sound reasoning using current, relevant, and stimulating examples in a witty and invigorating writing style. Combining examples from television, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, and our nation's political dialogue, this classic text brings the concepts to life and puts critical-thinking skills into a context that students will retain and use throughout their lives.
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Long the choice of instructors who want to "keep students engaged," LOGIC AND CONTEMPORARY RHETORIC: THE USE OF REASON IN EVERYDAY LIFE, Thirteenth Edition, introduces students to sound reasoning using current, relevant, and stimulating examples in a witty and invigorating writing style. Combining examples from television, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, and our nation's political dialogue, this classic text brings the concepts to life and puts critical-thinking skills into a context that students will retain and use throughout their lives.
A variety of topics engage students of all levels, including the distortion of the news in mass media, psychological impediments to cogent reasoning, use of language to manipulate and persuade, and instruction in analyzing and writing arguments.
Sections on political language, the evolution of the meaning of certain words, and media bias present innovative and current approaches to the study of critical thinking.
Chapter-opening learning objectives provide students with an instructional framework to better understand the subject matter.
Exercises and summaries at the end of each chapter help students focus on central issues and apply the concepts explained in each chapter.
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