Argument and rationality -- Argument as civil conversation -- Motivating your argument -- Articulating claims -- Reasons and evidence -- Reporting evidence -- Warranting claims and reasons -- Acknowledgments and responses -- The forms of reasoning -- Arguments about meanings -- Arguments about causes -- Clear language -- The overt and covert force of language -- Appendix: Fallacies -- A quick guide to citations.
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