Author: Marnie Jull
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228009677
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Interpersonal arguments carry the potential for defensiveness and hostility, making them enormously distressing and difficult to understand. An Anatomy of Everyday Arguments examines the structure and dynamics of conflict to find new ways forward. Marnie Jull analyzes four personal stories through the lens of the Insight approach, an innovative way to decipher and reshape the direction of everyday conflicts that draws from the theories of Bernard Lonergan. Jull dissects arguments that range from a quarrel about chores to a high-stakes organizational impasse, exploring the internal process of decision-making that shapes conflict behaviour within complex social contexts. Without dismissing the importance of responsible conflict, the Insight approach encourages people in the heat of an argument to engage less rashly with threat. Jull’s entertaining storytelling and meticulous analysis integrate findings from sociology, conflict resolution, interpersonal communication, psychology, facilitation, ethnography, anthropology, and qualitative research methodology. At a time of increasingly polarized global debate, the Insight approach lays the groundwork for new possibilities to emerge. An innovative text, An Anatomy of Everyday Arguments brings new theoretical work on conflict and change to life and demonstrates its practical applications.
Author: Jeffrey P. Mehltretter Drury
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1506383580
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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"Good coverage of concepts with understandable explanations of theory. Very user friendly with exercises to use in and out of class. Connects well with other communication classes through the application of other communication concepts to argumentation." —Christopher Leland, Azusa Pacific University Argumentation in Everyday Life provides students with the tools they need to argue effectively in the classroom and beyond. Jeffrey P. Mehltretter Drury offers rich coverage of theory while balancing everyday applicability, allowing students to use their skills soundly. Drury introduces the fundamentals of constructing and refuting arguments using the Toulmin model and ARG conditions (Acceptability, Relevance, and Grounds). Numerous real-world examples are connected to the theories of rhetoric and argumentation discussed—enabling students to practice and apply the content in personal, civic, and professional contexts, as well as traditional academic debates. Encouraging self-reflection, this book empowers students to find their voice and create positive change through argumentation in everyday life. Unique resources to help students navigate this complex terrain of argumentation: "The Debate Situation" offers students a birds-eye view of any given debate (or exchange of arguments between two or more people) organized around three necessary components: arguments, issues, and the proposition. The visual model of the debate situation illustrates how these features work together in guiding a debate and it lays the groundwork for understanding and generating arguments. Easy to Use Standards for Evaluating Arguments combine a prominent argument model (named after logician Stephen Toulmin) with a standards-based approach (the ARG conditions) to test of quality of an argument. The ARG conditions are three questions an advocate should ask of an argument in determining whether or not it is rationally persuasive. These questions are best served by research but don’t necessary require it, and thus they provide a useful posture for critically assessing the arguments you encounter. Multiple "Everyday Life" examples with an emphasis on context help students to connect the lessons more fully to their everyday life and encourages them to grapple explicitly with dilemmas arising in different contexts. "Find Your Voice Prompts" focus on choice & empowerment to offer strategies for students to choose which arguments to address and how to address them—empowering students to use argumentation to find their voice. "Build Your Skill Prompts" use objective applications to test how well students have learned the information. They offer a chance to apply the material to additional examples that students can check against the answers in Appendix II. Two application exercises at the end of each chapter encourage students to think critically about the content, discuss their thoughts with their peers, and apply the material to everyday situations.
Author: Robert V. Hannaford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Hannaford shows that doing (reasoning and acting morally) and being (our "moral anatomy" or essential nature) do not exist in a vacuum but are rooted in community, in our relations with others. Moral reasoning, he argues, focuses on what we ought to do in a situation where we must consider the needs, desires, and expectations of others.
Author: David Zarefsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108626823
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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This book uses different perspectives on argumentation to show how we create arguments, test them, attack and defend them, and deploy them effectively to justify beliefs and influence others. David Zarefsky uses a range of contemporary examples to show how arguments work and how they can be put together, beginning with simple individual arguments, and proceeding to the construction and analysis of complex cases incorporating different structures. Special attention is given to evaluating evidence and reasoning, the building blocks of argumentation. Zarefsky provides clear guidelines and tests for different kinds of arguments, as well as exercises that show student readers how to apply theories to arguments in everyday and public life. His comprehensive and integrated approach toward argumentation theory and practice will help readers to become more adept at critically examining everyday arguments as well as constructing arguments that will convince others.
Author: Annette T. Rottenberg
Publisher: Bedford/st Martins
ISBN: 9780312431303
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 579
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"The Structure of Argument," comprising the text chapters of the all-time best-selling argument text and reader, "Elements of Argument," offers instructors a compact guide to critical thinking, argumentation, and research, with half of the readings in the longer book.
Author: Michael Gilbert
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770483802
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Arguing with People brings developments from the field of Argumentation Theory to bear on critical thinking in a clear and accessible way. This book expands the critical thinking toolkit, and shows how those tools can be applied in the hurly-burly of everyday arguing. Gilbert emphasizes the importance of understanding real arguments, understanding just who you are arguing with, and knowing how to use that information for successful argumentation. Interesting examples and partner exercises are provided to demonstrate tangible ways in which the book’s lessons can be applied.
Author: David Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615755373
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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The theory of arguments is developed as it was actually practiced by the early Greek probabilists. It is then illustrated by a number of examples of actual arguments. How does one handle facts, simple or complex, introduced by one's opponent in an argument? How can one use antitheses and reversals in an argument? How does one handle analogies, or slippery slope arguments, or dilemmas? This book is addressed to persons who are interested in learning appropriate methods for handling ordinary catch-as-catch-can arguments that arise so often in the usual processes of exchanging opinions about the world and all that goes on within it.
Author: Barrie A. Wilson
Publisher: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America
ISBN:
Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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A comprehensive introduction to the study of argument which presents theory and develops skills in argument identification, evaluation, preparation, and presentation. Argument evaluation is presented systematically as a series of ten steps. A useful feature is the complimentary Instructor's Manual which includes camera-ready pages for preparing overhead acetates of solutions to exercises in the text. The manual should be ordered directly from Professor Barrie A. Wilson, Atkinson College, York University, 4700 Keele Street, North York, Ontario, Canada M3J 2R7.
Author: Douglas Walton
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438423233
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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This book provides a practical and accessible way of evaluating good and bad arguments used in everyday conversations by applying normative models of dialectical (interactive) argumentation, where two parties reason together in an orderly and cooperative way. Using case studies, the author analyzes correct and incorrect uses of argumentation on controversial issues that engage the reader's interest while illustrating points in a practical way. Walton gives clear explanations of the most common errors and tricky deceptions — traditionally called "fallacies" — that can trip up an unwary arguer.
Author: Jay Verlinden
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9780534601744
Category : Critical thinking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Book Description
Students are introduced to fundamental principles of argumentation and critical thinking. It teaches them that argument is a part of everyday life. It also addresses the use of the principles in contexts such as public communication, dyadic argumentation and small group settings.
