This brief, rhetoric of argument teaches critical reading, informal reasoning, and writing as reasoned inquiry, and now features a new collection of student arguments. The Shape of Reason emphasizes the enthymeme as the central basis for the invention and structuring of arguments. This approach blends classical insights into rhetorical reasoning with contemporary understandings of the composing process as generative and organic, situated within discourse communities. The book helps students understand argument as inquiry, stressing the responsibility that writers...
This brief, rhetoric of argument teaches critical reading, informal reasoning, and writing as reasoned inquiry, and now features a new collection o...
No single work is more responsible for the heightened interest in argumentation and informal reasoning and their relation to ethics and jurisprudence in the late twentieth century than Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca s monumental study of argumentation, "La Nouvelle Rhetorique: Traite de l'Argumentation." Published in 1958 and translated into English as "The New Rhetoric" in 1969, this influential volume returned the study of reason to classical concepts of rhetoric. In The Promise of Reason: Studies in The New Rhetoric, leading scholars of rhetoric Barbara Warnick, Jeanne...
No single work is more responsible for the heightened interest in argumentation and informal reasoning and their relation to ethics and jurisprudence ...
