A Workbook for Argumentsbuilds on Anthony Weston’sA Rulebook for Argumentsto provide a complete textbook for a course in critical thinking or informal logic. The second edition adds:
Updated and improved homework exercises—nearly one third are new—to ensure that the examples continue to resonate with students.
Increased coverage of scientific reasoning, demonstrating how scientific reasoning dovetails with critical thinking more generally
Two new activities in which students analyze arguments in their original form, as provided in brief selections from the original texts.
This edition continues to include
The entire text ofRulebook, supplemented with extensive explanations and exercises.
Homework exercises adapted from a wide range of arguments in a wide variety of sources.
Practical advice to help students succeed.
Model answers to odd-numbered problems, including commentaries on the strengths and weaknesses of selected sample answers and further discussion of some of the substantive intellectual, philosophical, or ethical issues they raise.
Detailed instructions for in-class activities and take-home assignments.

An appendix on mapping arguments, giving students a solid introduction to this vital skill in constructing complex and multi-step arguments and evaluating them.

论证工作手册》以安东尼-韦斯顿的《论证规则手册》为基础，为批判性思维或非正式逻辑课程提供一本完整的教科书。第二版增加了。

更新和改进了家庭作业--近三分之一是新的，以确保这些例子能继续引起学生的共鸣。

增加了对科学推理的报道，展示了科学推理如何与更普遍的批判性思维相衔接

两个新的活动，让学生分析原始形式的论点，就像从原文中选取的简短内容一样。

本版继续包括

规则手册》的全部内容，并辅以大量的解释和练习。

改编自各种来源的广泛论点的家庭作业练习。

帮助学生成功的实用建议。

奇数问题的示范答案，包括对所选样本答案的优点和缺点的评论，以及对他们提出的一些实质性的知识、哲学或伦理问题的进一步讨论。

关于课内活动和回家作业的详细说明。

关于绘制论证图的附录，为学生提供了关于构建复杂和多步骤论证以及评估这些论证的重要技能的坚实介绍。