The persuasive pen : an integrated approach to reasoning and writing
"The Persuasive Pen offers practical assistance in both the writing process and critical thinking. It teaches students how to think critically and clearly, and how to shape ideas convincingly for readers with varying expectations and responses. This book will be of interest to anyone who teaches a Clinical Thinking course, offered in both Philosophy and English departments; Informal Logic; English Composition; Persuasive Writing; and other interdisciplinary courses in which argumentation, writing, and research skills are emphasized." "Special Features: Stresses what students can do to reason and write more effectively rather than on errors to avoid. Contains a wealth of well-designed exercises and examples. Class tested for a number of years. Helps students at all stages of the writing process by providing them with ideas on how to begin a project and carry it all the way through to completion."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©1997
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Sudbury, Mass., ©1997
xiii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780763702342, 076370234X
35360892
I. Discovering the Issues
1. Introduction: A Case Study of Sherlock Holmes
2. Defining a Topic for Thinking and Writing
3. Invention
II. Discovering the Best Arguments
4. Identifying Arguments and Their Structures
5. Reconstructing Arguments
6. Evaluating Arguments I: Deductive Reasoning
7. Evaluating Arguments II: Inductive Reasoning
8. Fallacies
III. Public Writing
9. Style
10. Making It Public