How to Win an Argument

Surefire Strategies for Getting Your Point Across

By: Michael A. Gilbert

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Paperback | 17 January 2008 | Edition Number 3

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How to Win an Argument is designed to provide you with the tools you need to improve your rhetorical and critical skills. Since we constantly argue at work, home, and even in casual conversation, improving that ability is extremely important. This book will enable you to choose your arguments carefully and prevent you from being misled by fallacies and empty rhetoric. It will increase your insight and perception of the positions presented to you, decrease your gullibility, and replace it with a healthy skepticism. The practical information in this guide will sharpen your ears and your mind, making it more likely that the right response will occur to you at the right moment, rather than hours later. The third edition contains a new chapter on emotion and additional examples for each chapter. Using this book will aid you in communicating effectively, avoiding conflict, and understanding the myriad arguments you are faced with every day.

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This is a HOW to book that makes sense. No doubt because it is based on a thorough understanding of the peculiarities and possibilities of argumentation. -- Frans H. van Eemeren, Professor of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory, and Rhetoric?University of Amsterdam
If argumentation is important, then this book will be of inestimable value. * St. Catherine's Standard *
Praise for the First and Second Editions: Insightful, instructive, and enjoyable to read..... * Publishers Weekly *
Praise for the First and Second Editions: Insightful, instructive, and enjoyable to read. * Publishers Weekly *

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Preface to the Third Edition	p. vii
The Art of the Argument	p. 1
What Are We Arguing About?	p. 3
Why Argue So Much?	p. 7
Kinds of Arguments	p. 9
Defensive vs. Offensive Argument	p. 11
Some Warnings	p. 15
Super-Rule I: Never Admit Defeat	p. 19
How Are Arguments Built?	p. 23
The Principle of Rationality	p. 27
Two More Principles	p. 31
Super-Rule II: Listen!	p. 37
Emotional Turmoil	p. 41
Scoring a Goal	p. 45
Zen and the Art of Argument	p. 47
Section 1 Review	p. 51
The Ways of the Argument	p. 55
What's Going on Here?	p. 57
Ring Around the Argument	p. 61
What Were We Talking About?	p. 67
Everyone's Doin' It, Doin' It, Doin' It	p. 75
Well, If He Said So...	p. 79
The Refuge of Scoundrels	p. 85
The Straw-Man Argument	p. 93
The Slippery Slope	p. 97
Haste Makes Waste	p. 103
Three Sneaky Moves	p. 111
Section II Review	p. 119
The Arguments	p. 123
Pot Luck	p. 125
The Gay Life	p. 129
Equal Rights for Equal Arguments	p. 133
Why Get Married?	p. 137
Good-by, Friends	p. 141
To See Or Not To See	p. 145
Essaying A Service	p. 149
To Therapy Or Not To Therapy	p. 153
Section III Review	p. 157
Going Further	p. 161
Index	p. 165
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