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Language of Argument

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ISBN-10: 0618917551

ISBN-13: 9780618917556

Edition: 12th 2008

Authors: Larry W. Burton, Daniel McDonald, Daniel McDonald

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This highly regarded English Composition text teaches students to read argument and provides material around which they can write their own argumentative essays. Throughout the collection, short and compelling pieces generate classroom debate by touching on today's most controversial issues, including stem cell research and racial profiling. The brevity of each argument allows instructors to assign one or more readings in a single class period. While the majority of reading selections function as models of good writing, the collection also contains poorly structured writing examples so that students can analyze and learn from the flaws. The Twelfth Edition features "Get Your Facts," a new…    
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List price: $74.95
Edition: 12th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: CENGAGE Learning
Publication date: 2/28/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Forms of Argument Persuasive Writing Win Your Audience
Define the Issue Make Your Case Exercises
Restoring Perspective: $1,000 for the Prom Is Immoral
Help Wanted Immediately! Even
Death Won''t Stop the Politicians
Demonstrates Psychokinesis, Redstone Wire Service Color Me Pro-Choice
Of Paul De Man and Deconstruction
Induction Is the Sample Known?
Is the Sample Sufficient?
Is the Sample Representative?
Polling Occam''s Razor Exercises Essay Assignments
Cast Men Out of Polling Places
Praying for
Death May Be More Appropriate
We Don''t Need Immigrants
Boxing
Smoking Is Very Glamorous, American Cancer Society
Fast Food Terror: A Tale of Two Cities
Deduction Are the Premises True?
Is the Language Unambiguous?
Is the Syllogism Valid?
Induction or Deduction?
Exercises Essay Assignments Ebonics
Be a Complex Issue
Death Penalty Deters Violent Crime
Justice Department Detects Discrimination Against Native Americans
All in Favor of "Gun Control," Raise Your Right Hand
A Broader Approach to Respect for Life
Stem Cell Research Needs to Proceed, Editorial, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Research
Not Equal to Sacrifice
Fallacies False Analogy Presumed Cause-Effect
Begging the Question
Ignoring the Question
Fallacies in Other Forms Exercises
Essay Assignments
Left-Handers (Those Sickos) Got No Reason to Live!
Is This Intelligent Design or What?
How Would You Like the Police to Investigate Your Miscarriage?
Planned Parenthood Sizism--One of the Last "Safe" Prejudices
Pave the Stupid Rainforests!
Women Priests? Never!
Argument by Authority
Expert Testimony
Biased Testimony
Distorting Quotations Exercises Essay Assignments
America''s Founding Fathers on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, National Rifle
Association Tracking the Werewolf
How Prozac Saved My Marriage
What Jesus Said About Homosexuality, Dignity/USA Nudity Can''t Separate Us From God, Sin Does
There Is No Safe Sex
Semantic Argument
Words Indirect Statement Persuasive Style Exercises Essay Assignments Offices Revolve Around Doughnuts
Psychometry: Getting the Vibrations
Stauer EMC2 Analog Atomic Watch, NextTen Corporation
Which Would You Rather Put on Your Kids'' Cereal? Sugar Association SAT Has Outlived Its Usefulness--If It Ever Had Any, That Is
Women Can Dump Jerks Without Help of Lawyers
Statistics Averages Questionable Figures
Irrelevant Numbers Homemade Statistics Enhancing a Statistic Exercises
Essay Assignments Terrorism and You--The Real Odds
100,000 Beer Commercials?
Barry Bonds, Your Records Will Stand
Is It Sports, the Weather or Love of God That Keeps Us Married?
Consider the Bulk Rate for Wide-Bodied Airline Passengers
God Bless America, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence No, Virginia, There Isn''t a Santa Claus!
Argument for Analysis
The Ugliness Problem
Would You Take a House Call from Dr. Kevorkian?
I Had Liposuction Instead, American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
The Baby Grew Up to Be a Monster
Give Hotel Guests a Bible-Free Room
Let''s Not Blame Wrestling for All the Violence
The Supreme Court Also Legalized Slavery, Breen Entrance to High School Should Not Be Automatic
Women Don''t Belong in the Cockpit!
Federal Foolishness and Marijuana
A Lot of Campus Rapes Start Here
Hospital Making Sheep: Possible, but Right?