Argumentation: Critical Thinking in Action explores a wide variety of issues and concepts connected to making arguments, responding to the arguments of others, and using good critical thinking skills to analyze persuasive communication.

Based on feedback from users and instructors, the new fifth edition of David Lapakko’s Argumentation: Critical Thinking in Action:

• promotes civil discourse through expanded emphasis on sender/receiver ethics.
• integrates updated examples – includes…

The goal of Rhetoric and Arguments: A Primer in Ethical Reasoning is to introduce students to the fundamentals of rhetoric and argumentation. Additionally, students will learn how to apply these concepts to everyday life, whether in their college classes, their job, or their personal life. The journey, however, will not stop there. While learning the basics is essential to any introductory argument publication, it is equally important to focus on some of the communication issues that exist in our contemporary moment by teaching methods for addressing them. …

Speaking to Persuade views controversy as constructive rather than obstructive. Framing persuasion as a cooperative act based on dialectical interchange between speakers and listeners, this text provides a roadmap for achieving productive civic engagement in democratic societies, however polarized they may be.

This fourth edition again translates theory into practice, first by emphasizing invention and critical thinking to formulate ideas, and second by advancing practice in the rhetorical canons:

• awakening vivid language and reliable memory…

Responding to current research on the value of handwriting and to a desire to help students work through the writing process and document their thought, our instructor team has collaborated to create Research and Argumentation Within Rhetorical Foundation. This writing workbook includes: 

• exercises throughout chapters and at the end of chapters (for submission).
• visuals to demonstrate relationships and processes.
• perforated pages that allow students to remove pages for submission.
• ample space for student writing.

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In the complex world of the 21st century, organizations have an imperative to communicate with an assortment of publics using multiple communication platforms (Taylor & Kent, 2010). An organization’s public is as likely to be half way across the world as it is to be down the block. Time, space, and location matter less in our highly networked world. Yet, time, space, and location also create challenges for organizations as they seek to influence their environments and achieve objectives. Public relations or strategic communication helps organizations…

The Approachable Argument is a critical thinking text that uses argumentation as a means of increasing independent and well-informed thinking, rather than an argumentation and debate text that assumes teaching certain forms automatically leads to critical thinking. Written in a simple, conversational format, yet still comprehensive, The Approachable Argument contains numerous current real-world examples, making it easy for students to relate and learn by example rather than by theory.

Features Include:

• Learning Objectives
• …

Argumentation and Debate: A Public Speaking Approach addresses the needs of students with no prior experience in formal debate, limited experience in public speaking, and little or no plans to compete in speech and debate tournaments. The publication takes content beyond the classroom by featuring a chapter dedicated to discussing argumentation and debate in different professional contexts.

NEW 3rd Edition of Argumentation and Debate: A Public Speaking Approach by Martin Remland, Timothy Brown, and Kay Neal:

The Pursuit of Probable Truth: A Primer on Argument is a concise, practical guide for learning to argue effectively. Designed as a primer for students in a beginning argumentation course, it rests on the assumption that skill in argument is best developed through practice. The book brief to provide the basics necessary to get started arguing well.

• The basic nature and purposes of argument
• The key ideas that guide successful argument
• The primary contexts in which argument occurs and the formats for arguing in those contexts…

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The contemporary arguments currently made by rhetoric’s primary practitioners— advertisers, speechwriters, and teachers—hold the keys to a treasure box that remains locked to many of the people who are constantly exposed to its many nuanced workings.

Classical Strategies for Composing Current Arguments shows students how to think critically about their written ideas and the ideas of others, to analyze arguments in terms of rhetorical construction and functions, and then to apply all of these rhetorical skills to their own writing.

Elizabeth A. Stolarek and Larry R…

College Arguments: Understanding the Genres prepares college writing students genre knowledge or genre awareness so that they will be able to engage with a variety of writing assignments more effectively. The idea of genre awareness involves fostering students’ understanding of what motivates the production of different types of texts so that they will be able to develop appropriate response strategies.

College Arguments: Understanding the Genres:

• Encourages students to approach college writing tasks with greater…

An introductory course in argumentation and rhetoric gives students the tools with which to improve their critical thinking abilities and with which to communicate that thinking in an effective manner. Effective critical thinking is necessary to understand ourselves and the world. Without effective critical thinking, we cannot make reasonable decisions about what to believe and about how to act. As individuals, our own decisions construct our lives and shape the lives of those around us. As members of family, group, community, and of the broader society and culture, our productive…

From Analysis to Argumentation helps beginning writers learn effective writing strategies.  The book is designed specifically for first-semester English Composition courses, but it can help anyone who is interested in writing more effectively and more professionally.

This book will help writers:

• discover important ideas through prewriting strategies
• organize ideas into meaningful and well-structured paragraphs and essays
• convey important life lessons in personal essays
• analyze and evaluate the quality and…