Logic and contemporary rhetoric: The use of reason in everyday life - Softcover

Kahane, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534090184 ISBN 13: 9780534090180

Publisher: Wadsworth Pub. Co, 1988

Synopsis

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. Editorial Reviews Review "An incredibly readable book introducing students to logical and fallacious reasoning in more depth than we find in most English argumentation texts." "Good, easy to use, easy to understand, rather thorough introduction to the correct use of informal logic in everyday life." "This text is a clear, practical introduction to thinking well in daily situations and improving critical thinking skills for reading, writing and speaking." "An in-depth text that integrates logic and the many forms of modern rhetoric. A text that would be useful in advanced writing courses, communications courses, and also as a critical thinking text." About the Author Frank Boardman is a visiting assistant professor at Dickinson College. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2016. Nancy M. Cavender is Professor Emeritus at the College of Marin. Howard Kahane received a master's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a professor of philosophy at Bernard M. Baruch college in New York and is considered one of the founders of the critical-thinking movement, an approach to logic that makes it less abstract and more practical as a tool for analyzing political and social issues.

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About the Author

Howard Kahane, who died in 2001, is considered one of the founders of the "critical thinking" movement--an approach to logic that makes it less abstract and more more practical as a tool for analyzing political and social issues.

Nancy M. Cavender teaches in the English department of The College of Marin.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wadsworth Pub. Co
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0534090184
• ISBN 13: 9780534090180
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 346