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Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric With Readings : Brief Edition

ISBN: 9780205317462 | 0205317464
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 6/1/2000

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SummaryTable of Contents
The market-leading guide to arguments, "Writing Arguments" has proven highly successful in teaching readers to read arguments critically and to produce effective arguments of their own. Teaches readers to write better arguments. How to write arguments; how to do research for arguments; an anthology of argumentative readings. Anyone interested in writing better arguments.
The market-leader in argumentative rhetorics, Writing Arguments has been praised for its clear explanation of the Toulmin model, separate chapters... MORE
PART ONE OVERVIEW OF ARGUMENT1(72)
Argument: An Introduction
3(21)
Reading Arguments
24(24)
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Writing Arguments
48(25)
PART TWO PRINCIPLES OF ARGUMENT73(108)
The Core of an Argument: A Claim with Reasons
75(13)
The Logical Structure of Arguments
88(19)
Evidence in Arguments
107(25)
Moving Your Audience: Audience-Based Reasons, Ethos, and Pathos
132(20)
Accommodating Your Audience: Treating Differing Views
152(29)
PART THREE ARGUMENTS IN DEPTH: SIX TYPES OF CLAIMS181(178)
An Introduction to the Types of Claims
183(9)
Categorical and Definitional Arguments: X Is (Is Not) a Y
192(36)
Causal Arguments: X Causes (Does Not Cause) Y
228(33)
Resemblance Arguments: X Is (Is Not) like Y
261(19)
Evaluation Arguments: X Is (Is Not) a Good Y
280(27)
Proposal Arguments: We Should (Should Not) Do X
307(39)
Ethical Arguments
346(13)
PART FOUR WRITING FROM SOURCES: THE ARGUMENT AS A FORMAL RESEARCH PAPER359(72)
Finding and Selecting Sources: The Library and the Internet
361(26)
Using and Documenting Sources
387(44)
APPENDIXES431(32)
Appendix One Informal Fallacies
431(14)
Appendix Two The Writing Community: Working in Groups
445(18)
Credits463(2)
Index465

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