The Elements of Reasoning

About this book

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 Whites 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.