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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...

do not make this kind of mistake in reasoning. In some cases it might appear as if the premise supports the claim, and this calls for careful evaluation of the argument and of whether the premises are relevant. A special term is used to describe good arguments, arguments in which the premises are properly connected to the conclusion. We say that such arguments are valid arguments. When arguments are valid, the premises are relevant to the conclusion and actually give us good reasons to think that
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