How to Win an Argument by Michael A Gilbert
How to Win an Argument is designed to provide you with the tools you need to improve your rhetorical and critical skills. Since we constantly argue at work, home, and even in casual conversation, improving that ability is extremely important. This book will enable you to choose your arguments carefully and prevent you from being misled by fallacies and empty rhetoric. It will increase your insight and perception of the positions presented to you, decrease your gullibility, and replace it with a healthy skepticism. The practical information in this guide will sharpen your ears and your mind, making it more likely that the right response will occur to you at the right moment, rather than hours later. The third edition contains a new chapter on emotion and additional examples for each chapter. Using this book will aid you in communicating effectively, avoiding conflict, and understanding the myriad arguments you are faced with every day.
This is a HOW to book that makes senseNo doubt because it is based on a thorough understanding of the peculiarities and possibilities of argumentation. -- Frans H. van Eemeren, Professor of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory, and Rhetoric?University of Amsterdam
If argumentation is important, then this book will be of inestimable value. * St. Catherine's Standard *
Praise for the First and Second Editions: Insightful, instructive, and enjoyable to read..... * Publishers Weekly *
Praise for the First and Second Editions: Insightful, instructive, and enjoyable to read. * Publishers Weekly *
If argumentation is important, then this book will be of inestimable value. * St. Catherine's Standard *
Praise for the First and Second Editions: Insightful, instructive, and enjoyable to read..... * Publishers Weekly *
Praise for the First and Second Editions: Insightful, instructive, and enjoyable to read. * Publishers Weekly *
Michael A. Gilbert is Professor of Philosophy at York University in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Coalescent Argumentation (1979), as well as two novels, and numerous scholarly articles.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780761840015 |
| ISBN 10 | 076184001X |
| Title | How to Win an Argument |
| Author | Michael A Gilbert |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University Press of America |
| Year published | 2008-01-17 |
| Number of pages | 174 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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