Thinking Syntactically

<i>Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis</i> is a textbook designed to teach introductory students the skills of relating data to theory and theory to data. <br /> <ul> <li style=”list-style: none”><br /> </li> <li>Helps students develop their thinking and argumentation skills rather than merely introducing them to one particular version of syntactic theory.<br /> </li> <li>Structured around a wide range of exercises that use clear and compelling logic to build arguments and lead up to theoretical proposals.<br /> </li> <li>Data drawn from current media sources, including newspapers, books, and television programs, to help students formulate and test hypotheses.<br /> </li> <li>Generative in spirit, but does not focus on specific theoretical approaches but enables students to understand and evaluate different approaches more easily.<br /> </li> <li>Written by an established author with an international reputation.</li> </ul>