Good Arguments: Making Your Case in Writing and Public Speaking

Richard A. Holland Jr.; Forrest, Benjamin K.

ISBN 10: 0801097797 / ISBN 13: 9780801097799

Published by Baker Academic, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Good Arguments: Making Your Case in Writing and Public Speaking
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801097797
• ISBN 13: 9780801097799
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 7 ounces

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Synopsis

This brief introduction to making effective arguments helps readers to understand the basics of sound reasoning and to learn how to use it to persuade others. Practical, inexpensive, and easy-to-read, the book enables students in a wide variety of courses to improve the clarity of their writing and public speaking. It equips readers to formulate firmly grounded, clearly articulated, and logically arranged arguments, avoid fallacious thinking, and discover how to reason well. This supplemental text is especially suitable for use in Christian colleges and seminaries and includes classroom discussion questions.

About the Authors

Richard A. Holland Jr. (PhD, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) is assistant professor of philosophy at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona.

Benjamin K. Forrest (EdD, Liberty University) is associate dean of the College of General Studies and professor of Christian education at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.