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    Good Arguments: Making Your Case in Writing and Public Speaking
    Good Arguments: Making Your Case in Writing and Public Speaking
    Good Arguments: Making Your Case in Writing and Public Speaking
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    Good Arguments: Making Your Case in Writing and Public Speaking

    By Richard A. Holland Jr. and Benjamin K. Forrest

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    This brief introduction to making effective arguments helps readers to understand the basics of sound reasoning and to learn how to use it to persuade others. Practical, inexpensive, and easy-to-read, the book enables students in a wide variety of courses to improve the clarity of their writing and public speaking. It equips readers to formulate firmly grounded, clearly articulated, and logically arranged arguments, avoid fallacious thinking, and discover how to reason well. This supplemental text is especially suitable for use in Christian colleges and seminaries and includes classroom discussion questions.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateAug 22, 2017
    ISBN9781493410897
    Good Arguments: Making Your Case in Writing and Public Speaking
    Author

    Richard A. Holland Jr.

    Richard A. Holland Jr. is Assistant Professor of Seminary at Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, and Visiting Instructor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

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