Thank You for Arguing : What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us about the Art of Persuasion

from medievalmama

I love this book! Rhetoric has always been one of those things that I've gone "hunh???" over. This makes rhetoric fun and funny! His examples really do include Aristotle to Homer Simpson, along with his teen son and his preschool daughter. Funny, funny, funny!!

from luisuribe

A great primer on argumentation. It has a nice conversational style and doesn't get too hung-up on rhetorical figures or argumentation styles. It gives a usable overview of the major argument "voices" then gives salient examples. This is a very workable place to start a study on rhetoric before m...

from TJWilson

The sidebars are a little much. Too many sidebars make for too much disjointedness. I don't do well when people I'm conversing with have side conversations. Don't do it with writing! On the whole, the examples (good for people who know 90s culture and movies, otherwise...) and terms are all in he...

from jontseng

A interesting rhetoric primer disguised as a self-help book. However despite handy end of chapter summaries it suffers from fragmentation and disorganisation.

from Razinha

I stretched this one out quite a while because I would pick it up, read a few sections and put it down for something else. It's a nice conversational read, full of great explanations, strategies, tips, told with not a few anecdotes (which ordinarily would drive me nuts, but weren't so bad taken a...