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The Oxford Guide to Effective Argument and Critical Thinking /
How do you approach an essay or discussion question? How do you review what claims others have made and offer counter-claims? And how do you weigh up the strengths and weaknesses of your own argument before putting together a persuasive conclusion?This accessible book takes you step by step through...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. What do you do when you argue a case?
- Claims and conclusions
- Reasons and inference
- Titles as questions
- Support for a conclusion
- 2. How will you make yourself clear?
- Vagueness and definition
- Assumptions
- Ambiguity and conflation
- Ordering and indicating
- 3. What case have others made?
- Counter-claims
- Counter-argument
- Selection and evaluation of sources
- Reputation and expertise
- 4. What do you make of these arguments?
- Overstatement and straw man
- Causes and conditions
- Appeals to the past
- Appeals to feelings
- 5. How will you support your case?
- Examples and anecdotes
- Facts and factual claims
- Statistical evidence
- Credibility and corroboration
- 6. How much can you be sure about?
- Certainty and plausibility
- Deductive argument
- Conditional claims
- Logic and truth
- 7. How much is a matter of belief?
- Point of view
- Belief and opinion
- Bias and neutrality
- Values and principles
- 8. Are you over-simplifying the issue?
- Ad hominem and tu quoque ploys
- False dichotomy
- Over-generalization
- Analogy and slippery slope
- 9. Does your argument hang together?
- Contradiction
- Consistency and coherence
- Changing the subject
- Begging the question
- 10. How will you lay out your case?
- Structure of reasoning
- Intermediate conclusion
- Alternative inferences
- Quotation and referencing.