Logic and Rhetoric

Communication and Culture

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978-1-952023-60-6

Logic and Rhetoric

Bryce Gessell, PhD

Being open to other perspectives matters, but so does the ability to build a sound argument for your own. This resource teaches students to do both. Students learn how to construct and evaluate deductive and inductive arguments, tell strong reasoning from weak, and spot the fallacies and biases that lead arguments astray. They then turn that logic into persuasion, studying semantics and rhetoric, tailoring messages to their audience, and using nonverbal communication to land them. Students finish able to reason carefully, communicate clearly, and convince others, skills essential in every profession.

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Topic 1: Introduction to Critical Reasoning Topic 2: Arguments—Bits of Reasoning That Prove a Point Topic 3: Deductive Arguments—The Nuts and Bolts of Logical Thinking Topic 4: Inductive Arguments—Gathering and Organizing Evidence Topic 5: Evaluating Arguments—How to Tell a Strong Argument from a Weak One Topic 6: Fallacies and Biases—How Arguments Can Make Mistakes Topic 7: Semantics—The Importance of Meaning in Logic and Rhetoric Topic 8: Persuasive Argumentation—Building Arguments to Convince Others Topic 9: Rhetoric—The Arts of Persuasion and Communication Topic 10: Rhetoric, Clarity, and Audience—The Right Message to the Right People Topic 11: Rhetoric and Nonverbal Communication—The Right Message in the Right Way Topic 12: Critical Reasoning and Rhetorical Technique—Using Arguments to Persuade

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