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Format:

Audio Book on CD, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Sound Recording

Author:

Zarefsky, David.

Title:

Argumentation : the study of effective reasoning / David Zarefsky.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

12 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm).

Summary:

Lectures by Dr. David Zarefsky, Professor of Argumentation and Debate and Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, cover the history of rhetoric and debate as well as analysis of different types of arguments in various situations.

Series:

The great courses

Great courses (Compact disc)

Subjects:

Debates and debating.

Forensics (Public speaking)

Reasoning.

Rhetoric.

Genre:

Audiobooks.

Other Author:

Teaching Company.

Other Title:

Study of effective reasoning

Argumentation, the study of effective reasoning

Notes:

Compact discs.

"Course No. 9294."

"Philosophy & intellectual history."--Container.

Accompanying course guidebooks include a glossary, biographical notes, and bibliographical references.

Lecturer: David Zarefsky, Northwestern University.

Contents:

Introducing argumentation and rhetoric. Underlying assumptions of argumentation. -- Formal and informal argument. History of argumentation studies. -- Argument analysis and diagramming. Complex structures of argument. -- Case construction: requirements and options. Statis: the heart of the controversy. -- Attack and defense I. Attack and defense II. -- Language and style in argument. Evaluating evidence.

Reasoning from parts to whole. Reasoning with comparisons. -- Establishing correlations. Moving from cause and effect. -- Commonplaces and arguments from form. Hybrid patterns of inference. -- Validity and fallacies I. Validity and fallacies II. -- Arguments between friends. Arguments among experts. -- Public argument and democratic life. The ends of argumentation.

ISBN:

1565853571

9781565853577

1598031163

9781598031164

Publisher Number:

4294

Other Number:

63789231

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

219251

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

GREAT CD 160 Zarefsky