| Description |
12 sound discs : digital + 2 course guidebooks (ii, 60 pages ; 22 cm) |
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The great courses |
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Great courses.
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| Performer |
Lecturer: David Zarefsky, Northwestern University. |
| Note |
Accompanying course guidebook includes a glossary, biographical notes, and a bibliography. |
| Summary |
Lectures by Dr. David Zarefsky, Professor of Argumentation and Debate and Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, cover the history of rhetoric and debate as well as analysis of different types of arguments in various situations. |
| Contents |
Part I.-- Lecture 1. Introducing argumentation and rhetoric -- Lecture 2. History of argumentation studies -- Lecture 3. Formal and informal argument -- Lecture 4. The emergence of controversy -- Lecture 5. Resolutions and issues -- Lecture 6. Stasis: the focal point of dispute -- Lecture 7. Presumption and burden of proof -- Lecture 8. Argument analysis and diagramming -- Lecture 9. Claims and evidence -- Lecture 10. Reasoning from parts to whole -- Lecture 11. Moving from cause to effect -- Lecture 12. Establishing correlations -- |
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Part II.-- Lecture 13. Analogy, narrative and form -- Lecture 14. What makes a sound argument? -- Lecture 15. Fallacies in reasoning -- Lecture 16. Validity and fallacies reconsidered -- Lecture 17. Assembling a case -- Lecture 18. Attack and defense I -- Lecture 19. Attack and defense II -- Lecture 20. Language and style in argumentation -- Lecture 21. Arguments between friends -- Lecture 22. Arguments among experts -- Lecture 23. Public argument and democratic life -- Lecture 24. Ends of argumentation. |
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Debates and debating -- Sound recordings.
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Forensics (Public speaking) -- Sound recordings.
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Reasoning -- Sound recordings.
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Rhetoric -- Sound recordings.
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| Local Subject |
BOOKS ON COMPACT DISC.
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| Genre |
Audiobooks.
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Teaching Company.
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| Added Title |
Study of effective reasoning |
| ISBN |
1565853571 (set) |
| Music No. |
Course no. 497 Teaching Co. |
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Course no. 498 Teaching Co. |
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