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  <title><![CDATA[A Rulebook for Arguments]]></title>
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  <default-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.   &lt;P&gt;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.</default-description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Anthony Weston]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is excellent for learning better arguing strategies and learning when other people actually sound like complete morons during an argument.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[wow a lot of these logic concepts sound like spells from Harry Potter.<br/><br/>Reductio ad absurdum! <br/><br/>Seriously, a must read for everyone.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Many books on argument informal logic tend to bog down into encyclopedic explorations of fallacies or pitch a lot of exercises at the reader.<br/><br/>Not this title--at less than 100 pages it selects concision as a goal.<br/><br/>I suspect Weston's book would be a great introductory title for s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42188736">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ótima sistematização de regras de argumentação. <br/>Acompanha muito bem a obra &quot;Como vencer um debate sem precisar ter razão&quot; (A. Schopenhauer, comentado por Olavo de Carvalho).]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this guy really knows what he's talking about<br/>very nicely divided into sections.<br/>5/5 will buy]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Besides the shortness and section headings (which were good), there isn't anything in particular to recommend this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for my Philosophy class, so I wasn't expecting to particularly enjoy it.  I was surprised to find myself recommending it to a friend.  It's a little bit logic, a little bit rhetoric, a little bit common sense.  Short, easy to read, real-life examples on many levels.]]></body>
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