Everything's an Argument

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Summary: A great practical, useable text for argumentation
Review: After teaching a college-level argumentation course for eight years from a traditional text, student comments and my own motivations led me to search for a text that focused on the variety of forms of argument we hear daily. In "everything's an argument" I found this text. Teaching the argumentation around the question "Is everything and argument?" is a fresh idea that promotes our constant critical thinking as we look for arguments around us. This book provides a variety of excellent examples to illustrate how argument does appear in virtually every aspect of our lives. Exercises at the back of the chapters lead students to analyze arguments they find. I am adopting this text, with some supplementary readings on debate and dialogue, for my Fall 2000 argumentation course. Thank you for a practical, easy-to-read text.

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Summary: This book [inhales with force]
Review: I was required to read this book for an English composition class. It only discusses how everything you say or write is an argument. Like this for example. Unless forced, I would never read this book again.

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Summary: Painful Reading
Review: Our class was assigned to read the entire book.... It examines a copious amount of arguements and covers a variety of techniques. The chapter questions (back to highschool homework) are long and tedious. The questions lack interest and are time consuming. I found it to be a huge waste of my time and money. I advise no one to buy this ridiculous book. It actually covers the Toulman method of arguementation, but obviously not as clear as my professor taught. This book should be banned.