How to Argue: Essential Skills for Writing and Speaking Convincingly - Softcover

How to Argue – Revised and Expanded Edition

Alastair Bonnett

Confused and intimidated by the prospect of preparing and presenting an argument? Learning how to argue is one of the most challenging skills that you will have to master at university.

This new and expanded edition of How to Argue will banish fears and confusion about demonstrating your ability to argue.By applying the techniques described in this book, you should find the challenge of presenting a coherent and considered argument much easier. Packed with tried and tested advice, this book will guide you through the techniques of forming an academic argument, from contradictions and tensions, to empirical adequacy, structure and presentation.

How to Argue provides the essential advice that you will need on all aspects of argument at university, including:

• Choosing and structuring your argument
• Being original
• Arguing in different academic contexts
• Arguing in oral presentations
• Criticising arguments
• The role of argument in dissertations and exams
• Advice from examples and case studies

Also containing a practical glossary of key terms, How to Argue is sure to help you create and present even the most ambitious arguments clearly and convincingly.

Alastair Bonnett is Professor of Social Geography in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University.