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Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life 13th Edition By Frank Boardman, Nancy Cavender, Howard Kahane

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The 13th edition of Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life by Frank Boardman, Nancy Cavender, and Howard Kahane covers the formal principles of critical thinking and evaluates how logic is applied, distorted, or manipulated in popular culture. [1, 2]

Chapter-by-Chapter Core Topics

Chapter 1: Good and Bad Reasoning – Foundations of logical arguments, distinguishing premises from conclusions, and identifying the traits of cogent thinking.
Chapter 2: More on Deduction and Induction – Breakdown of deductive validity, soundness, inductive strength, and how these structures dictate daily decision-making.
Chapter 3: Fallacies: Questionable Premises – Analysis of common informal logical fallacies where the underlying assumptions are false, unproven, or misleading.
Chapter 4: Fallacies: Invalid Inferences – Examining arguments where the conclusion fails to logially follow the premises, even if those premises happen to be true.
Chapter 5: Fallacies: Misusing Induction – Spotting errors in statistical reasoning, hasty generalizations, false analogies, and incorrect causal relationships.
Chapter 6: Psychological Impediments to Cogent Reasoning – Confronting cognitive biases, self-deception, emotional reactions, conformism, and other internal barriers to objective logic.
Chapter 7: Language – The role of definitions, ambiguity, vagueness, and loaded or emotive language in shaping perception and shifting debates.
Chapter 8: Evaluating Extended Arguments – Techniques for deconstructing and analyzing longer pieces of text, such as editorials, political speeches, and policy proposals.
Chapter 9: Writing Cogent (and Persuasive) Essays – Practical guidance for structuring thesis statements, defending claims with evidence, and composing persuasive arguments.
Chapter 10: Advertising: Selling the Product – Deconstructing rhetorical tricks, psychological appeals, and non-logical formatting used in commercial marketing.
Chapter 11: Managing the News – Critical examination of media bias, agenda-setting, sensationalism, and how news organizations select and frame current events.
Chapter 12: New Media, Cyberculture and Public Discourse – Analysis of information echo chambers, internet algorithms, social media rhetoric, and digital misinformation.
Chapter 13: Argument and Rhetoric in Fiction – Exploration of how logic, persuasion, and rhetorical themes are built into literature, movies, and dramatic storytelling. [1, 2]