Reason and Argument
Offering a clear and detailed account of reason and argument, this book presents an effective method that is applicable to reasoning about almost any topic. The book facilitates the interpretation and evaluation of reasoning as it occurs in non-technical contexts, such as newspaper editorials and columns, short essays, and informal reports of scientific results. Reason and Argument gives students the capacity to recognize a solid argument from a poor one, the skill to discern what the available evidence supports, the power to understand the world around them, and the ability assess all that they read and hear.