Writing Arguments A Rhetoric with Readings

Name: Writing Arguments A Rhetoric with Readings
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ISBN: 9780205665761

ISBN-10: 0205665764

ISBN-13: 9780205665761

Edition: 8th 2010 (Brief Edition)

Authors: John D. Ramage, John C. Bean, June Johnson

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The market-leading guide to arguments,Writing Arguments, Brief edition, 8/e, 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. Anyone interested in writing better arguments.

Book details

List price: $79.80
Edition: 8th
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/7/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



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 Argument


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



ldquo;Petition to Waive the University Mathematics Requirementrdquo;


Conclusion



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