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From Inquiry to Argument

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ISBN-10: 0205200419

ISBN-13: 9780205200412

Edition: 1st 1999

Authors: Linda McMeniman

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From Inquiry to Argument blends inquiry, research, and argument by interweaving a discussion of argumentation strategies with instruction in critical thinking and research skills and with writing tasks important to research and argument. Most textbooks emphasize either argument (and ignore the need to discover sources and information) or research (and de-emphasize argumentation as a motive for seeking source material). From Inquiry to Argument develops students' abilities in argumentation and research simultaneously. This approach gives students a reason to research to find ideas and information for their arguments and also helps them build better arguments by teaching them how to analyze…    
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Book details

List price: $121.60
Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/2/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

All chapters include Works Cited
Activities and/or Assignments
From Inquiry
Inquiry and Argument
From Inquiry
The Motives for Inquiry
The Context of Inquiry
The Civic and Academic Discourse Communities
To Argument
The Elements of Argument
The Subject of Argument
The Appeals of Argument
The Writer's Discourse Community
Readings
The Unmaking of Civic Culture
Turned Off by Politics
That's No Panacea
The First-Year Student as Immigrant
Reading as Inquiry
Understanding Reading
The Collaborating Reader
The Inquiring Reader Reading Argumentative Writing
Reading and Discussing
A Process for Reading Well From Reading to Discussion Improving Listening and Responding
Techniques for Inquiry into Texts
Annotating Outlining Mapping
The Writing Reader
Readings
Stop Peddling Tobacco to Kids
My Fellow Immigrants
Television and the Shaping of Cognitive Skills
The Writing Reader: Inquiring into Meaning through Paraphrase, Summary, and Quotation
Coming to Terms with Meaning
Paraphrase and Summary Compared
Attribution: Signaling the Use of Paraphrase and Summary
Paraphrase
Accuracy and Academic
Honesty A Process for Writing Complete
Paraphrases Cautions about Paraphrase
Style When to Choose Paraphrase Blended Paraphrase
Summary: Writing Your Understanding of a Source
Types of Summaries A Process for Preparing a Formal Summary Hints and Tips
Additional Considerations in Paraphrase and Summary
A Source Written in the First Person
A Caution about Interpretation
A Source within a Source
Quotation Skills
Choosing Quotations How Much to Quote
Quoting Statistics, Charts, and Specifications
Insetting Quotations in Your Own Text
The Mechanics of Including Quotations Acceptable Changes to Quotations
Guidelines for Informal Source Reference
Readings
Violence Is a Public Health Problem
Are American Schools Too Easy?
The Destruction of Childhood
The Evidence Is Coming In: Dan Quayle Was Right
Creating Dialogue between Sources: Comparing, Contrasting, and Synthesizing Arguments
Comparison and Contrast of Arguments
Process Ways in Which Sources Can Agree or Differ Ways to Use Comparison and Contrast Judging Sources
Student Assignment: Honore Duncan, The NY Times and the Economist Oppose Internet Censorship
Synthesis of Arguments
Types of Syntheses A Process for Writing a Full Formal Synthesis
Student Assignment: Seth Nobile, Mandatory Sentences Cause Many Problems
Documentation Writing a Brief Formal Synthesis
Locating Periodicals
Process Using the Internet for Research Some Useful Site Addresses
Readings
The Case for Sweatshops
Sweatshops or a Shot at a Better Life?
The Ethical Gray Zone
Charles Krauthammer
If Suicide Is Legally Sanctioned for the Terminally Ill
Why Not for the Rest of Society?
How We Can Tune out Children from Television Violence
Young People Get an Eye-Opening Look at the Violence on TV
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