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Perspectives on Argument by Nancy V. Wood (2003, Trade Paperback)
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- ISBN
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Prentice Hall PTR
ISBN-10
0131823744
ISBN-13
9780131823747
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2483632
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
752 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Perspectives on Argument
Publication Year
2003
Subject
Rhetoric, Composition & Creative Writing, Readers
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
37.1 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
4
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2003-048240
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
808/.042
Table Of Content
The Rhetoric. I. ENGAGING WITH ARGUMENT FOR READING AND WRITING. 1. A Perspective on Argument. Essays for Analysis:Pay Your Own Way! (Then Thank Mom),Audrey Rock-Richardson.The Laptop Ate My Attention Span,Abby Ellin.Censoring the Internet,Lada Carlisle. 2. Developing Your Personal Argument Style. Essays for Analysis:We Knew What Glory Was,Shirlee Taylor Haizlip.A View from Berkeley,Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien.Giving People a Second Chance,Ernest Martinez.One of Our Own: Training Native Teachers for the 21st Century,Suzette Brewer.Why I Want a Wife,Judy Brady.A Simple "Hai" Won't Do,Reiko Hatsumi. 3. A Process for Reading Argument. Essays for Analysis:Jobs Illuminate What Riots Hid: Young Ideals,Sara Rimer.Don't Know Much about History,Roberta Israeloff.The Road to Unreality,Mark Slouka. 4. A Process for Writing Argument. Essays for Analysis:A Room of Their Own,LynNell Hancock and Claudia Kalb.Coming and Going,Nathan Glazer.Trial by Jury: A Fundamental Right and a Flawed System,Tanya Pierce. II. UNDERSTANDING THE NATURE OF ARGUMENT FOR READING AND WRITING. 5. The Essential Parts of an Argument: The Toulmin Model. Essays for Analysis:Automobile Advertisement.What's Happened to Disney Films?John Evans.Toulmin Analysis of "What's Happened to Disney Films?Beth Brunk.American Value Systems,Richard Rieke and Malcolm O. Sillars. 6. Types of Claims. Essays for Analysis:Debunking the Digital Divide,Robert Samuelson.Zygotes and People Aren't Quite the Same,Michael S. Gazzaniga.Paying the Price of Female Neglect,Susan Dentzer.What's Wrong with Standard Tests?Ted Sizer.Campus Climate Control,Katie Roiphe.Gene Tests: What You Know Can Hurt You,Barbara Koenig.Without a Safety Net,Barbara Ehrenreich.Reading, Writing, Narcissism,Lilian G. Katz and Frances Scott Piven.Devising New Math to Define Poverty,Louis Uchitelle.Bringing Up Adultolescents,Peg Tyre.Hold Your Horsepower,Lyla Fox. 7. Types of Proof. Essays for Analysis:Meet the Philip Morris Generation, Advertisement.Censorship or Common Sense,Roxana Robinson.The Future Is Ours to Lose,Naomi Wolf.The Declaration of Independence,Thomas Jefferson. 8. The Fallacies or Pseudoproofs. Essays for Analysis:VitaminAdvertisement.The Latest From the Feminist Front,Rush Limbaugh.Minor Problems?Kelly Dickerson. 9. Rogerian Argument and Common Ground. Essays for Analysis:When Special Care Is Called For, Advertisement.Human Cloning: Is It a Viable Option?Angela A. Boatwright.Special Education's Best Intentions,Lois Agnew.Dear Mom,Taryn Barnett.The Great Campus Goof-Off Machine? Not for All Students,Jeff Burkholder.The Great Campus Goof-Off Machine,Nate Stulman.A Call for Unity,Letter from Eight White Clergymen.Letter from Birmingham Jail,Martin Luther King, Jr. III. WRITING A RESEARCH PAPER THAT PRESENTS AN ARGUMENT. 10. The Research Paper: Clarifying Purpose and Understanding the Audience. <DIV STYLE="mar
Synopsis
For freshman/sophomore-level writing courses that teach argumentation. This combination rhetoric/reader helps students develop strategies for critical reading, critical thinking, research, and writing that will help them argue clearly and convincingly. Every chapter includes essays for analysis and writing activities. Unique chapters on influences on argument (nationality, gender, etc.), arguing about literature, and visual and oral arguments round out this thoroughly class-tested approach., For 1st/2nd year level writing courses that teach argumentation. This combination rhetoric/reader helps students develop strategies for critical reading, critical thinking, research, and writing that will help them argue clearly and convincingly.
LC Classification Number
PE1431.W66 2003
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