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How to Write Better Arguments (Using the Toulmin Model)

Posted on Monday the 27th of November 2017Monday the 13th of April 2020 by M-A

Effective arguing is lost on most people, but you don’t have to be one of them. Our friend Stephen Toulmin has a model to help us craft better arguments.

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Maxwell Perkins by Al Ravenna (1943)

The Writer Is an Artist, the Editor Is a Rhetorician

Posted on Friday the 11th of April 2014Sunday the 17th of April 2022 by M-A

Some see editors and publishers as expensive vestiges of an archaic system, but writers should strive to develop symbiotic relationships with their editors.

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All Art Is Rhetoric

Posted on Friday the 6th of July 2012Saturday the 23rd of April 2022 by M-A

In college, my art history professor’s motto for the course was “all art is propaganda”, but I think ‘rhetoric’ is a better word. All art is rhetoric.

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