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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...

Muhammad Ali is widely recognized as the greatest boxer of his time and one of the greatest heavyweight boxers who ever entered the ring. Which would be an easier task for you to achieve: surviving a twelve-round bout against Muhammad Ali … or surviving a twelve-round bout against a life-sized inflatable doll that looks like Muhammad Ali? The difference between those feats helps us to understand what the straw man fallacy is. The straw man fallacy is one in which you create an intentionally
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