The market-leading guide to arguments, Writing Arguments has proven highly successful in teaching readers to read arguments critically and to produce effective arguments of their own.
Teaches readers to write better arguments. How to write arguments; how to do research for arguments. Anyone interested in writing better arguments.
In order to establish credibility with an audience - be it co-workers, town officials or administrators, or friends - people need to know the appropriate rules for arguing. This book offers the most effective combination of rhetoric and readings of any argument books available with out the selection of readings available in the longer version. This book strongly emphasizes argument as the social act it is and treats the topic as a means of clarification and truth-seeking as well as a means of persuading an audience. Designed for anyone who wants to learn the "proper" way to creating an argument in writing or in speech, this book is unsurpassable.