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Well-Crafted Argument (with 2009 MLA Update Card)
ISBN: 9780495899754 | 0495899755
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 5/18/2009
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The Well-Crafted Argument guides students through the process of writing effective argumentative essays across the disciplines. The two-part structure of this rhetoric/reader includes a complete pedagogical apparatus--with coverage of reading, writing, and researching a topic--and an anthology of readings grouped into eight thematic clusters. In-depth instruction, combined with real student writings, engages students and helps them discover their own voices. The Third Edition features a greater emphasis on visual argument, while maintaining the authors' practical, skill-building approach. Each chapter ends with a summary, checklist, and writing projects that allow students to apply what they learn. In addition to guidance on drafting and revising arguments, the authors provide a variety of composition strategies, from free-writing to outlining. Active reading tools, such as note-taking, summary writing, and shared reading, are also encouraged. Students receive the most up-to-date information on MLA documentation with the enclosed tri-fold card providing NEW 2009 MLA Handbook formats.
| The Rhetoric of Argument | |
| The Nature and Process of Argument | |
| Why Argue? | |
| What Is an Argument? | |
| Using Evidence in Argument | |
| Communicating with a Purpose | |
| The Process of Composing an Argument | |
| Using Appeals in Argument | |
| Organizing the Argument | |
| Drafting the Argument | |
| High Score Educati... MORE | |
| Revising the Argument: A Form of Reevaluation | |
| Reading to Revise | |
| Visual Aids as Tools for Argumentative Writing | |
| Tribal Relations | |
| The Cartoon | |
| Methods of Critical Reading | |
| Reading as a Construction of Meaning | |
| Active versus Passive Reading | |
| Reading as a Writer of Arguments | |
| Writing a Summary | |
| Reading with a Pencil | |
| Say No to Trash | |
| Reading Visuals in Arguments | |
| Becoming a Highly Motivated Reader | |
| Reading Responsibly | |
| High Noon (editorial) | |
| Active Reading as Shared Reading | |
| Using the Modes of Argument as a Schema for Analysis | |
| The Importance of Open-Mindedness when Reading | |
| Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina | |
| Using the Classical Model in Your Arguments | |
| Argument in the Ancient World | |
| The Classical Model of Argument | |
| Student Essay | |
| Ecology vs. Land Development in Trinidad and Tobago | |
| Reinforcing Aristotelian Appeals with Visuals | |
| Anti-Defamation League, School Vouchers: The Wrong Choice for Public Education | |
| Why School Vouchers Can Help Inner-City Children | |
| Using the Toulmin Model in Your Arguments | |
| The Toulmin Model of Argument | |
| Professions for Women | |
| Student Essay | |
| Tobacco: Ignorance Is No Longer an Excuse | |
| Organizing Your Argument Using the Toulmin Model | |
| Declaration of Independence | |
| Using the Rogerian Model in Your Arguments | |
| The Rogerian Model of Argument | |
| Let's Talk About Sexual Harassment in Middle School | |
| Letter from Birmingham Jail | |
| Student Essay | |
| Who Owns Our Children? | |
| Reasoning: Methods and Fallacies | |
| Argumentative Reasoning | |
| The Nature of Fallacies | |
| Strategies of Reasoning | |
| Errors in reasoning | |
| A Taxonomy | |
| Love Is a Fallacy | |
| Researching Your Argument | |
| The Three Faces of Resaerch | |
| Searching Before You Research: Taking a Mental Inventory | |
| Focusing Your Research for Argumentative Essays | |
| Formulating a Strong Thesis | |
| Researching Using the Internet | |
| Searching on the Web | |
| Useful Websites for Writers of Arguments | |
| Researching Using Print Resources | |
| Gathering Information from Email, Telephone Conversations, Interviews, and Surveys | |
| Taking Effective Research Notes | |
| The Role of Serendipity in Research | |
| Evaluating Your Sources | |
| Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| Incorporating Outside Sources into Your Argument | |
| Documenting Your Sources: MLA and APA Styles | |
| Citation of Source Material: A Rationale | |
| Which Documentation Style to Use? | |
| A Guide to MLA Documentation Style | |
| Presenting Quoted Material | |
| Index for Citing Sources: MLA Style | |
| Using Author/Page In-Text Citations | |
| Preparing the MLA List of Works Cited | |
| Sample Student Paper: MLA Documentation Format | |
| Why We Should Punish | |
| A Guide to APA Documentation Style | |
| Presenting Quoted Material | |
| Index for Citing Sources: APA Style | |
| Using Author/Year In-Text Citations | |
| Preparing the APA List of References | |
| Sample Student Paper: APA Documentation Format | |
| Child Molestation: Anything but Your Typical Crime | |
| Reading Custers | |
| Athletics and Academics: How Do They Benefit Each Other? | |
| Are Student Athletes Really Students? | |
| Game Score, Test Scores (editorial cartoon) | |
| Brawn & Brains: Student Athletes Get a Bum Rap | |
| Is Athletics Meeting Its Purpose | |
| For True Reform, Athletic Scholarships Must Go | |
| Student Essay | |
| Academic Performance of Student Athletes | |
| Issues for Further Research: The Intrinsic Value of College Athletics | |
| Student Visual Essay | |
| The Faces of Sports | |
| Student Essay | |
| Play for Pride, Not for Pay | |
| Intellectual Property: How Should IP Rights be Protected? | |
| How Might the Downloading of Music Files Best Be Regulated? | |
| Troubletown (editorial cartoon) | |
| Speaks on Intellectual Property Rights: "We Have to Treat Theft as Theft" | |
| Protecting Music | |
| The Internet Debacle: An Alternate View | |
| Thread My Music's Yours | |
| Penalties Frighten Music Traders: Survey Reports Copyright Laws Are Not Daunting | |
| Student Essay | |
| Why I've Stopped Sharing Music | |
| Student Essay | |
| A Language All Their Own | |
| Issues for Further Research: Copyright Term Limits | |
| Mouse Trap: Disney's Copyright Conquest | |
| Needed: Sane IP Laws | |
| Issues for Further Research: Copyright Complexities | |
| Negativland, Changing Copyright | |
| Issues for Further Research: Plagiarism | |
| The Rules of Attribution | |
| Rule No. 1: Don't Copy | |
| Media Regulation: What Are the Issues? | |
| How Should the First Amendment's Freedom of Speech Guarantee Be Applied? | |
| Internet and Censorship (editorial cartoon) | |
| Speech Overview | |
| Campus Speech Issues | |
| The Web Police | |
| Student Essay | |
| Speech Codes: An Insult to Education and a Threat to Our Future | |
| Issues for Futher Research: Book Banning | |
| A Letter to the Chairman of the Drake School Board | |
| Student Essay | |
| The Myth of Book Censoring Within the American Educational System | |
| Student Essay | |
| Censorship of Books for Public High Schools: When Necessary | |
| When Not Issues for Further Research: Effects of Media Violence | |
| Statement Linking Media Violence to Violence in Kids Draws Criticism | |
| TV Isn't Violent Enough | |
| Issues for Further Research: Textbook Sanitizing | |
| CNN Student News, Language Police Bar "Old," "Blind" | |
| Multicultural Learning: What Are the Priorities? | |
| Who, If Anyone, Benefits from Multicultural Education? | |
| Politically Correct (editorial cartoon) | |
| Perspectives: Improving Race Relations One Journalism Class at a Time | |
| Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective | |
| Issues for Further Research: The Canon Debate | |
| Equality and the Classics | |
| A Historian in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass | |
| Student Essay | |
| The Importance of Multicultural Education in Global Society | |
| Issues for Further Research: Bilingual Education | |
| English: The National Language (editorial cartoon) | |
| Linguistic Police (editorial cartoon) | |
| Bilingual or Immersion | |
| Two Languages Are Better Than One | |
| Speaking a Public Language | |
| Student Essay | |
| Education in English: The Proven Benefits of a Bilingual Academic Program | |
| Student Essay: Yung Le English First | |
| Ann Russell, Literacy Development for Students with No Voice: Scheme and Schema | |
| Eliminating Standardized Tests in College Admissions: The New Affirmative Action | |
| Should the SAT Account for Race | |
| National Security: How Can the United Stated Best Protect Itself? | |
| What Effects Could the Patriot Act Have on Individual Liberties? | |
| So, It's Agreed (editorial cartoon) | |
| Patriot Act a Vital Tool Against Terrorism | |
| Faking Out the Constitution | |
| USA Patriot Act: What's Next | |
| Condorville (comic strip) | |
| The USA Patriot Act and Patron Privacy on Library Internet Terminals | |
| Big Brother Is Listening | |
| Student Essay | |
| New British Measure Will Harm Civil Liberties | |
| Issues for Further Research: Budgeting for Security | |
| The Cost of Securing the Homeland | |
| Issues for Further Research: Border Security | |
| 6000 Guardsmen Are Not Enough | |
| Mexicans See InsultDanger in Border Plan | |
| Science and Religion: If Common Ground Exists, Where Does It Lie? | |
| What Is the Basis of the Conflict Between Science and Religion? | |
| A Designer Universe | |
| The New Convergence | |
| Miracles and Explanations | |
| Fossils | |
| Cynthia Bass, Great Minds Needn't Think Alike to Be Right: Advocates of Science and Religion Can Co-Exist | |
| Student Essay: Kareem Raad, Can One Compare Science and Religion? | |
| Issues for Further Research: Teaching Human Origins in the Public Schools | |
| It's Really Oz | |
| Teaching Evolution at a Christian College | |
| Issues for Further Research: Religion in Public Schools | |
| The Real Message of Creationism | |
| Student Essay | |
| The Battle over Creationism | |
| Biomedical Research: What Role Should Ethics Play? | |
| Can Biomedical Issues Be Separated from Politics? | |
| Political Science/Politicized Science (cartoon) | |
| Who Should Read Your Mind | |
| Bioengineering and Self-Improvement | |
| Ethics, Politics, and Genetic Knowledge | |
| Designer Babies: One Step Closer | |
| Issues for Further Research: The Stem Cell Debate | |
| The Stem Cell Debate | |
| Bonnie Steinbock, The Morality of Killing Human Embryos | |
| A Middle Ground for Stem Cells | |
| Editors of The New Atlantis, Stem Cell Spin | |
| Issues for Further Research: Transgenic Animals | |
| Genetically Engineered Animals and the New "Pharm" Animal Factories | |
| Patenting Life | |
| A Question of Chimeras | |
| Student Essay: Nikolay Balbyshev, Priorities of Gene Therapy | |
| Masterpieces of Argument: What Do They Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion? | |
| Nick UtTragedy of Vietnam (photograph) | |
| Plato, Allegory of the Cave | |
| To His Coy Mistress | |
| A Modest Proposal | |
| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | |
| Keynote Adderss at the First Woman's Rights Convention | |
| I Hear the Mournful Wail of Millions | |
| The Obligation to Endure | |
| The Perils of Obedience | |
| The Character of Hamlet's Mother | |
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