Logic and contemporary rhetoric: The use of reason in everyday life

This text introduces students to the topic of good reasoning in a way that is relevant to everyday life. It uses examples taken from the media (TV, newspapers, magazines) , public school textbooks, advertisements, as well as from the best comic strips (such as Calvin and Hobbes, and Doonesbury) , cartoons from "New Yorker" magazine and the best political cartoonists (for example, Levine and Tom Toles) .