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LOGIC AND CONTEMPORARY RHETORIC: THE USE OF REASON IN EVERYDAY LIFE, 13th Edition, introduces you 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 you will retain and use throughout your life.
Contents
1. Good and Bad Reasoning.
2. More on Deduction and Induction.
3. Fallacies: Questionable Premises.
4. Fallacies: Invalid Inferences.
5. Fallacies: Misusing Induction.
6. Psychological Impediments to Cogent Reasoning: Shooting Ourselves in the Foot.
7. Language.
8. Evaluating Extended Arguments.
9. Writing Cogent (and Persuasive) Essays.
10. Advertising: Selling the Product.
11. Managing the News.
12. New Media, Cyberculture and Public Discourse.
13. Argument and Rhetoric in Fiction.
Appendix: More on Cogent Reasoning.
Answers to Starred Exercise Items.
Bibliography.
Annotated List of Periodicals.
Glossary.
Index.