It employs a cross-disciplinary approach to quickly guide students in analyzing argumentative essays. Applicable sales tax, shipping, and handling will be added to orders. This section examines how. It also explains how deliberately fostered misunderstandings seduce the unwary. Key topics include how slogans serve persuasion, how reifications cloak urgent issues, how definitions aid persuasion, how pseudo solutions displace real solutions, and how name-calling obscures legitimate concerns.
Many controversies involve arguments about facts.
This section investigates how facts are involved in disputes by explaining how one disputant's fact can be another's foolishness, examining the relationship of facts and feelings, showing how facts depend on consensus and authority, exploring the foundations of decision making, and describing the function of inquiry blockers. In a diverse society, such as the United States, people disagree on what is right or wrong, good or bad, important or unimportant, useful or useless, beautiful or ugly. And this clash of values is of central importance in many controversies. Sometimes these value disagreements collide head-on. But they can also creep into disputes where they work their mischief more subtly.