The Art of Argument by Aaron Larsen, Joelle Hodge & Chris Perrin

Master the Art of Winning Any Argument

Good Condition – The cover shows some minor wear and creasing.

Junior high-aged students will argue (and sometimes quarrel), but they won't argue well without good training. Teens are targeted by advertisers with a vengeance-from billboards to commercials to a walk down the mall, fallacious arguments are everywhere they look. The Art of Argument is designed to equip studentsto reason with clarity, relevance and purpose at a time when they have a penchant for the why and how. This course teaches students to recognize and identify twenty-eight informal fallacies; the visually appealing text includes over sixty slick and clever phony advertisements for items from blue jeans to pick-up trucks, which apply the fallacies to a myriad of real life situations. Understanding fallacies is the baseline for critical thinking. Students master the 28 fallacies (such as begging the question, the straw man, ad hominen, et al) by studying many pertinent examples. The text features a variety of the following:

Dialogues
Worksheets
Real-World Applications
Phony Advertisements
Dialectic Discussion Questions
Tests
Fun extras such as a humorous skit for students to perform, and the famous short story, Love is a Fallacy by Max Shulman