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some advice about how to avoid overlooking alternatives, see
my book A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox (Oxford University
Press). For more on the "how to" of creative thinking—how to
come up with genuinely new alternatives in seemingly "stuck"
situations—see the many works of Edward DeBono, such as
DeBono's Thinking Course (Ariel/BBC).

The field of rhetoric studies the persuasive use of language,
especially in arguments. One excellent text in the field is The
Aims of Argument: A Rhetoric and Reader, by Timothy Crusins
and Carolyn Channell (Mayfield Publishing Company). A liter-
ary approach to argumentation from this angle is The Realm of
Rhetoric, by Chaim Perelman (University of Notre Dame
Press).

Specifically on the fallacies (Chapter X), see Howard Ka-
hane's Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric (Wadsworth Publish-
ing Company). For historical and theoretical treatment of the
fallacies, see Fallacies, by C. Hamblin (Methuen). For citation
styles, a useful short guidebook is Writing with Sources, by
Gordon Harvey (Hackett Publishing Company). On style in
general, still unmatched is William Strunk and E. B. White's
The Elements of Style (Macmillan)—a book in spirit much like
this one. Keep them together on a shelf somewhere, and don't
let them gather dust!