David Zarefsky (Illinois Northwestern University)

Broschiertes Buch

The Practice of Argumentation

Beschreibung

This book shows how to create arguments, deploy them effectively to justify beliefs and influence others, test them, and attack and defend them. It not only offers a set of techniques but also investigates the underlying assumptions and commitments we make when we argue.

Autor

David Zarefsky is Owen L. Coon Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, Illinois, where he has taught for over forty years. Two of his many books won the Winans-Wichelns Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, an award of the National Communication Association: President Johnson's War on Poverty: Rhetoric and History (1986) and Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate (1990).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781107681439
• ISBN-10: 110768143X
• Artikelnr.: 55732655