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Junior high aged students will argue (and sometimes quarrel), but they won't argue
well without good training.The Art of Argument was designed to teach the
argumentative adolescent how to reason with clarity, relevance and purpose at at
time when he has a penchant for the why and how over the what and when. In The
Art of Argument, students study those common fallacies that plague faulty reasoning
that so commonly characterizes contemporary thinking and writing. We regard the

mastery of informal logic (the logical fallacies) as a paradigm subject by which we
evaluate, assess and learn other subjects--it is a sharp knife with which we can carve
and shape all manner of wood.Mastery of informal logic is a requisite skill for
mastering other subjects. As a fundamental text in the dialectic curriculum, The Art of
Argument will impart to students the skills needed to craft accurate statements and
identify the flawed arguments and thinking found so frequently in editorials,
commercials, newspapers, journals and every other media. This text comes in a
workbook format with clear explanations and many examples to insure understanding
and mastery.The text aims at the practical application of the informal fallacies
through an analysis of current social and political issues, which are discussed and
evaluated. This practical application should insure that students continue to evaluate
arguments, detect fallacies and reason well long after the course is completed.
Students master 40 fallacies (such as begging the question, the straw man, ad
hominen, et al) by studying many pertinent examples of them. The text features a
variety of: Dialogues Worksheets Real-world Applications Dialectic Discussions Tests
The Art of Argument begins with simple definitions and explanations and features
frequent teaching by means of witty dialogues featuring Socrates and his American
friend Tiffany. Students completing this text should be able to apply their logical skills
in every other subject by detecting fallacies in others while avoiding such fallacies
themselves. This text is a cornerstone useful for every other subject your student
tackles.