Writing Arguments, Concise Edition : A Rhetoric with Readings
ISBN: 9780205665778 | 0205665772
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 6/29/2009
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The market leader in argumentative rhetorics, Writing Arguments has proven highly successful in teaching students to read arguments critically and to produce effective arguments of their own.With its student-friendly tone, clear explanations, high-interest readings and examples, and well-sequenced critical thinking and writing assignments, Writing Arguments offers a time-tested approach to argument that is interesting and accessible to students and eminently teachable for instructors.Throughout the book, the authors approach argument rhetorical... MORE
| Preface | |
| Overview of Argument | |
| Argument: An Introduction | |
| What Do We Mean by Argument? | |
| Argument Is Not a Fight or a Quarrel Argument | |
| Is Not Pro-Con Debate | |
| Arguments Can Be Explicit or Implicit | |
| Let the Facts Decide, Not Fear | |
| The Defining Features of Argument | |
| Argument Requires Justification of Its Claims ... MORE | |
| Is Both a Process and a Product Argument Combines | |
| Truth Seeking and Persuasion Argument and the Problem of Truth | |
| A Successful Process of Argumentation: The Well-Functioning Committee Gordon Adams (student) | |
| Petition to Waive the University Mathematics Requirement | |
| Argument as Inquiry: Reading and Exploring | |
| Finding Issues to Explore | |
| Do Some Initial Brainstorming | |
| Be Open to the Issues | |
| All Around You Explore Ideas by Freewriting Explore | |
| Ideas by Idea-Mapping Explore | |
| Ideas by Playing the Believing and Doubting | |
| Game Placing Texts in a Rhetorical | |
| Context Genres of Argument | |
| Cultural Contexts: Who Writes Arguments and Why? | |
| Analyzing Rhetorical Context and Genre Reading to Believe an Argumentrsquo;s Claims | |
| Amnesty? | |
| Summary Writing as a Way of Reading to Believe | |
| Practicing Believing: Willing Your Own Belief in the Writerrsquo;s Views Reading to Doubt Thinking Dialectically | |
| Questions to Stimulate Dialectic Thinking | |
| Why Blame Mexico? | |
| Three Ways to Foster Dialectic Thinking Writing Assignment: An Argument Summary or Formal Exploratory | |
| Essay Reading | |
| Should the United States Grant Legal Status to Undocumented Immigrant Workers? & | |
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