The Elements of Reasoning

This text is a concise and lucid introduction to the basic elements of argumentative prose and the conceptual tools necessary to understand, analyze, criticize, and construct arguments. The book serves not only as a text for college courses in argument analysis, but as a useful handbook of reasoning in much the same way that Strunk and White's ELEMENTS OF STYLE provides a handbook for writers. While the book covers the standard formal tools of introductory logic, its emphasis is on practical applications to the kinds of arguments students most often encounter.

• Author
• Ronald Munson, David Conway, Andrew Black

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 229

• Publisher
• Wadsworth Publishing Company

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780534584559

• Genres
• philosophy, logic

• Release date
• 2003