Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation & Analysis" is a textbook designed to teach introductory students the skills of relating data to theory & theory to data. It helps students develop their thinking & argumentation skills rather than merely introducing them to one particular version of syntactic theory. Structured around a wide range of exercises that use clear & compelling logic to build arguments & lead up to theoretical proposals. Data drawn from current media sources including newspapers books & television programs to help students formulate & test hypotheses. Generative in spirit but does not focus on specific theoretical approaches but enables students to understand & evaluate different approaches more easily. Written by an established author with an international reputation."