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| Making an Effective Argument | |
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| What Exactly Is an Argument? | |
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| Writing Arguments in College | |
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| Think About Your Credibility | |
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| Become an Effective Writer | |
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| Analyzing an Argument | |
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| What Is Rhetorical Analysis? | |
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| Build a Rhetorical Analysis | |
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| Analyze the Rhetorical Features | |
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| Analyze the Rhetorical Context | |
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| Analyze a Visual Argument | |
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| Write a Visual Analysis | |
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| Barbara Jordan, "Statement on the Articles of Impeachment" | |
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| You Try It: Write a rhetorical analysis | |
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| Writing an Argument | |
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| Find a Topic That Interests You | |
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| Feature: What is not arguable | |
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| Explore Your Topic | |
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| Read About Your Topic | |
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| Feature: Recognize fallacies | |
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| Find Good Reasons | |
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| Find Evidence to Support Good Reasons | |
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| State and Evaluate Your Thesis | |
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| Think About Your Readers | |
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| Organize Your Argument | |
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| Write an Engaging Title and Introduction | |
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| Write a Strong Conclusion | |
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| Constructing an Argument | |
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| Definition Arguments | |
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| Understand how definition arguments work | |
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| Recognize kinds of definitions | |
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| Build a definition argument | |
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| Sample student definition argument | |
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| Chris Nguyn, "Speech Doesn't Have to Be Pretty to Be Protected" | |
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| You Try It: Write a definition argument | |
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| Causal Arguments | |
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| Understand how causal arguments work | |
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| Find causes | |
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| Build a causal argument | |
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| You Try It: Write a causal argument | |
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| Evaluation Arguments | |
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| Understand how evaluation arguments work | |
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| Recognize kinds of evaluations | |
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| Build an evaluation argument | |
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| You Try It: Write an evaluation argument | |
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| Rebuttal Arguments | |
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| Understand how rebuttal arguments work | |
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| Recognize the tactics of rebuttal arguments | |
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| Build a rebuttal argument | |
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| You Try It: Write a rebuttal argument | |
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| Proposal Arguments | |
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| Understand how proposal arguments work | |
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| Recognize components of proposal arguments | |
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| Build a proposal argument | |
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| Sample student proposal argument | |
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| Kim Lee, "Let's Make It a Real Melting Pot with Presidential Hopes for All" | |
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| You Try It: Write a proposal argument | |
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| Researching an Argument | |
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| Find a Subject | |
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| Think about possible questions | |
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| Browse a subject directory | |
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| Browse a general or specialized encyclopedia | |
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| Ask a Research Question and Gather Information | |
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| Find information about the subject | |
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| Interviews | |
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| Surveys | |
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| Observations | |
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| Draft a Working Thesis | |
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| Find Sources | |
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| Search with keywords | |
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| Find sources in databases | |
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| Find sources on the Web | |
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| Find print sources | |
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| Evaluate Sources | |
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| Evaluate print and database sources | |
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| Evaluate Web sources | |
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| Documenting an Argument | |
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| Avoid Plagiarism | |
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| What you don't have to document | |
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| What you do have to document | |
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| Use caution with online source material | |
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| Quote Sources without Plagiarizing | |
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| Quoting directly using quotation marks | |
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| Attribute every quotation | |
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| Quote words that are quoted in your source with single quotation marks | |
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| Summarize and Paraphrase Sources without Plagiarizing | |
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| Summarize | |
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| Paraphrase | |
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| Incorporate Quotations | |
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| Document Sources in MLA Style | |
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| How to cite a source in your paper | |
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| How to cite an entire work, a Web site, or another electronic source | |
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| Create an MLA-style works-cited list | |
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| Sample MLA paper | |
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| Revising an Argument | |
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| Evaluate Your Draft | |
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| Respond to the Writing of Others | |
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| Edit and Proofread Carefully | |
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| Credits and Index | |