Appeal to Expert Opinion Ahmed Okasha Writing in the engaging style

Writing in the engaging style of Shaun Allison and Andy Tharby's award-winning Making Every Lesson Count

requiring the recognition of social transaction as the primary focus of all interventions

the book presents an important reassessment of the standard view of Renaissance perspective

abundant tables and charts that reinforce knowledge

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Appeal to Expert Opinion Ahmed Okasha Writing in the engaging styleA new pragmatic approach, based on the latest developments in argumentation theory, analyzing appeal to expert opinion as a form of argument. Reliance on authority has always been a common recourse in argumentation, perhaps never more so than today in our highly technological society when knowledge has become so specializedas manifested, for instance, in the frequent appearance of "expert witnesses" in courtrooms. When is an appeal to the opinion of