Rhetoric, Logic, and Argumentation: A Guide for Student Writers

by Magedah E. Shabo

Increase AP Test Scores with a Study of Persuasion and Analysis that Meets National Standards. Rhetoric, Logic, & Argumentation: A Guide for Student Writers. Improve the work of even your most effective student writers by preparing them to understand and produce persuasive messages. Rhetoric, Logic, & Argumentation will help you provide students with the tools they'll need to systematically analyze both their own arguments and the arguments they will encounter, whether in your classroom or in the real world. After using this book and completing the exercises, your students will become more purposeful in their approaches to writing and more confident in their ability to use language

152 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 11, 2010

About the author

Magedah Shabo is an author, editor, and English language instructor. Her works are taught in secondary and post-secondary classrooms across the United States and have been featured on reading lists for courses at Harvard, George Mason, Fordham, and American University.

Reviews

[K · Rating 1 out of 5]

Just look at her example of "Reductio ad absurdum"-

If God is willing to prevent evil but not able, then God is not omnipotent.
If God is able but not willing, then God is malevolent.
If God is both able and willing, then why does evil exist?
If God is neither able nor willing, then why call this being God?

3rd premise can easily be challenged. Does he have good reason to allow evil to bring about a greater good?

Lets consider an example of a parent bringing a child for vaccination.

From a child's point of view in vaccination -
My parent is both able and willing to prevent this intense evil and pain, then why does this evil exist?

Because the parent has a good reason to allow this evil to bring about a greater good.

I suggest you read good books by learned people. I am just a person who learned Philosophy for around a year as a hobby. And even I can see this as clearly amateurish.

This is what happens when you brings your views and propaganda in logic and rhetoric rather than being neutral.