This book is an introduction to acquiring and mastering tools you can use to better understand the meaning of nonfiction, argumentative texts. These texts include editorials in newspapers, magazines, and internet websites; articles, essays, and books in various academic fields (history, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology); and printed speeches, sermons, and lectures.
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James E. Scheuermann received his Ph.D. (in philosophy) from the University of Chicago and his J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. For more than 40 years, as a high school and college teacher and lawyer, he has been analyzing argumentative texts for his students and professional colleagues. He is the author of numerous articles in scholarly philosophy journals and law reviews, and in other legal publications.