Analysis Essay Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion, written by Jay Heinrichs, is a book based on the power of rhetoric. Jay Heinrichs is the founding editor of US Airways Attaché, was a former editorial director with Rodale Inc.A, also a former editor of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, a publisher of the Ivy League Network, and currently lives with his wife Dorothy on 150 acres. As Heinrichs walked through Dartmouth College’s library, he noticed a book based on rhetoric that consisted of the teachings of John Q. Adams. This art of persuasion influenced Heinrichs to dive deeper into rhetoric’s manipulative, seductive, and persuasive powers. The book overall is about when
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He explains that even if you don’t know all the facts, you can still be able to beat your opponent and recognize his fallacies. Heinrichs starts with syllogism, if chickens are birds, and chickens lay eggs, than all birds must lay eggs was interesting to see how inductive logic or deductive logic can be used to sway the audience in favor of the persuader. Inductive logic and deductive logic seem to be Heinrichs’s two most important forms of logic because he uses a specific problem to come to a firm conclusion. Chapter 13 has a great example because it shows a women trying to persuade another to vote for president of the United States, but the other claims Democrats will raise taxes. Using induction she comes to the conclusion that she too dislikes raised taxes but states to the opposer that there’s a website that shows how the Republicans are likely to raise them as well. This example alone made this chapter stand out to me the most …show more content…
Ilan Stavans, author of Dictionary Days: A Defining Passion called it “,Jay Heinrichs’s superb modern manual on rhetoric shows extent to which we say.” Sarah McGinty, author of Power Talk: Using language to Build Authority and Influence, states “, If argument is the cradle of thought, Thank You for Arguing can make us all better thinkers. So listen up!!” So don’t take my word for it take them from these “professional” writers. This is their job and for them to say that this book is remarkable is just another reason why it should remain in use. Although this book might not be a hit with all the critics that is just part of business, not everyone has the same opinion. All in all, the majority of people thoroughly enjoyed this book because of its humorous examples and real life scenarios
He explains that even if you don’t know all the facts, you can still be able to beat your opponent and recognize his fallacies. Heinrichs starts with syllogism, if chickens are birds, and chickens lay eggs, than all birds must lay eggs was interesting to see how inductive logic or deductive logic can be used to sway the audience in favor of the persuader. Inductive logic and deductive logic seem to be Heinrichs’s two most important forms of logic because he uses a specific problem to come to a firm conclusion. Chapter 13 has a great example because it shows a women trying to persuade another to vote for president of the United States, but the other claims Democrats will raise taxes. Using induction she comes to the conclusion that she too dislikes raised taxes but states to the opposer that there’s a website that shows how the Republicans are likely to raise them as well. This example alone made this chapter stand out to me the most …show more content…
Ilan Stavans, author of Dictionary Days: A Defining Passion called it “,Jay Heinrichs’s superb modern manual on rhetoric shows extent to which we say.” Sarah McGinty, author of Power Talk: Using language to Build Authority and Influence, states “, If argument is the cradle of thought, Thank You for Arguing can make us all better thinkers. So listen up!!” So don’t take my word for it take them from these “professional” writers. This is their job and for them to say that this book is remarkable is just another reason why it should remain in use. Although this book might not be a hit with all the critics that is just part of business, not everyone has the same opinion. All in all, the majority of people thoroughly enjoyed this book because of its humorous examples and real life scenarios