How to Win an Argument: Surefire Strategies for Getting Your Point Across

by Michael A. Gilbert

How to Win an Argument is designed to provide you with the tools you need to improve your rhetorical and critical skills. Since we constantly argue at work, home, and even in casual conversation, improving that ability is extremely important. This book will enable you to choose your arguments carefully and prevent you from being misled by fallacies and empty rhetoric. It will increase your insight and perception of the positions presented to you, decrease your gullibility, and replace it with a healthy skepticism. The practical information in this guide will sharpen your ears and your mind, making it more likely that the right response will occur to you at the right moment, rather than hours later. The third edition contains a new chapter on emotion and additional examples for each chapter. Using this book will aid you in communicating effectively, avoiding conflict, and understanding the myriad arguments you are faced with every day.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help

174 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1978

About the author

Dr. Michael A. Gilbert is Professor of Philosophy at York University in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Coalescent Argumentation (1979), as well as two novels and numerous scholarly articles.

Reviews

[Kenny Guzman · Rating 5 out of 5]

I saw an interview where 2pac mentioned this book, I was all over it since then

[Nick Pierce · Rating 3 out of 5]

An amusing introduction into logical fallacies, presented in the vernacular and hot button issues of the time (1978). Some wildly offensive stuff in here, so buyer be warned, but I actually think it's an interesting presentation and could be updated to assist with argument (& information) literacy for a wide audience.

[Theo Kokonas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent book. It goes through the bare basics of an argument, and the typical tricks that people play when arguing.
The book is very logically and appropriately laid out. I found it a bit challenging because picking apart conversations to their bare components is not something that comes naturally to me. I borrowed from the library however I'm definitely going to buy it because it's one of those books that explains really useful life skills.

[Douglas Wilson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent.

[Michiru · Rating 3 out of 5]

ok, sam nic prevec presenetljivega

[Lennart · Rating 4 out of 5]

Has some good basics. Summary: listen to what people say.

[Erik]

Listed by Patrick Madrid in the Reading Plan of Search and Rescue in Phase 1 (Preliminary).