This brief introduction to making effective arguments helps readers to understand the basics of sound reasoning and to learn how to use it to persuade others.

Practical, inexpensive, and easy-to-read, the book enables students in a wide variety of courses to improve the clarity of their writing and public speaking.

It equips readers to:

• formulate firmly grounded, clearly articulated, and logically arranged arguments
• avoid fallacious thinking
• discover how to reason well

This supplemental text is especially suitable for use in Christian colleges and seminaries and includes classroom discussion questions.