Publisher's Synopsis
Argumentation is supplanting declamation and oratory in many secondary schools, and the demand for usable material is almost universal in both junior and senior high schools. The Reeves manual fits the need of the day perfectly. It gives the essentials of argumentation; particular directions for constructing affirmative and negative arguments in debate; provides the student with tests of evidences; show him how to reason and persuade. It gives particular instruction in preparing the brief as well as definite directions for the conducting brief in compass it contains just those essentials that every teacher in charge of debating classes must present to his pupils for their further progress.
