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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 168 EAN: 9780872205529 Edition: 3 ISBN: 0872205525 Label: Hackett Pub Co Inc Manufacturer: Hackett Pub Co Inc Number Of Pages: 90 Publication Date: January 01, 2000 Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc Studio: Hackett Pub Co Inc Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Updated examples, streamlined text, and the chapter on definition reworked in a rule-based format strengthen this already strong volume. Readers familiar with the previous edition will find a text that retains all the features that make Rulebook ideally suited for use as a supplementary course book-including its modest price and compact size. Unlike most textbooks on argumentative writing, Rulebook is organized around specific rules, illustrated and explained soundly and briefly. It is not a textbook, but a rulebook, whose goal is to help students get on with writing a paper or assessing an argument. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Solid and ConciseA Rulebook for Arguments is certainly competent in its approach to intellectual debate. It is ideal for novices as the author's explanations are quite clear. My only reservations about it were due to my belief that Mr. Weston's examples were skewed in a leftist direction. By this I mean that his political orientation was evident based on the examples cited. One of which was an illustration of loaded language that referred to conservatives as people who describe themselves as those with a realistic ... Read More Rating: - Useful scientific writing tool As the title says, and as Weston writes in his introduction, this is "...not a text book, but a rule book." This short book is a useful desk reference for technical and scientific writers looking for practical approaches to structure written arguments clearly and logically. Rating:  - Argument: Well I say it's good!The book was in excellent condition upon arrival and it was a excellent price and arrived quickly. Rating: - Makes a terrible doorstop, so you may as well read it...Everyone needs critical thinking. But who wants to learn it? Most books drone on and on about this or that rule with esoteric Latin terms seeping from every page. In such cases, critical thinking would suggest astute readers close the book and convert it to a doorstop. Thankfully, there's "A Rulebook for Arguments." This minuscule, concise, but nonetheless conceptually beefy book will cause little consternation for prospective thinkers. Clear throughout, the text contains just the right amount of explanation ... Read More Rating: - Many Virtues, Just One FaultThe virtues of this book are many. There is only one fault to this book, but it is significant. You decide which is more important. This volume is slim and lightweight, precisely sized for the outside pocket of a student's backpack. Though too big for a shirt pocket, it is hard to imagine a book-bag so overstuffed that this book couldn't fit in one corner. Combined with the fact that it is inexpensive, that might make this the one book Freshman Composition students will hang onto when the class ... Read More 
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