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| Preface | |
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| What Makes an Academic Argument ldquo;Academicrdquo;? | |
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| What ldquo;Argumentrdquo; Means in an Academic Setting | |
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| Context Is Everything: Understanding the Rhetorical Situation of Academic | |
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| Arguments Elements of the Rhetorical Situation | |
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| Writer Audience Topic Occasion Purpose | |
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| How the Elements of the Rhetorical Situation | |
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| Are Interconnected Reading: ldquo;Generation Q,rdquo; by Thomas L. Friedman | |
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| A Final Note about Purpose and Writing | |
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| Academic Arguments To Persuade | |
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| Readers To Gain a Better | |
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| Understanding of the Topic | |
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| You Address To Learn about | |
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| Yourself To Reconcile or Mediate To Determine | |
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| What Is True Qualities of Effective Academic | |
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| Arguments Using Clear Structures and Precise | |
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| Language Supporting Arguments | |
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| Properly Qualifying Placing | |
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| Arguments in Context Employing an Appropriate | |
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| Voice and Tone Following Established | |
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| Conventions Recognizing Audience | |
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| Needs Qualities of Ineffective | |
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| Academic Arguments Unclear and Imprecise Writing | |
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| Employing Unsupported Assertions | |
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| Lacking Context Employing an Inappropriate | |
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| Tone and Voice Ignoring Disciplinary Conventions Ignoring Opposing | |
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| Points of View Employing | |
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| Unqualified Assertions Ignoring Audience Chapter | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Elements of Persuasive Academic Arguments | |
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| What Makes Academic Arguments Persuasive? | |
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| Logos: The Role of Logic and Reason in Academic | |
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| Arguments Claims Grounds Explanations | |
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| Qualifications Rebuttals | |
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| Logos in Action: A Sample Argument | |
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| Reading: Letter to the Editor | |
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| Common Logos-related Fallacies | |
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| Pathos: The Role of Emotion in Academic | |
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| Arguments Pathos in Action: A Sample Essay 108 101 | |
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| Reflections on the Revolution in France(1790) 113   emocracy? | |
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| Mapping the Past Were the Railroads | |
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| Indispensable to Economic Growth? | |
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| Debating The Past | |
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| Were the Industrialists Robber | |
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| Barons or Savvy Entrepreneurs? | |
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| American Society in the Industrial | |
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| Age Middle-Class Life Skilled and Unskilled | |
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| Workers Working Women Farmers | |
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| Working-Class Family Life | |
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| Working-Class Attitudes Working Your Way Up | |
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| The New Immigration | |
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| New Immigrants Face | |
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| New Nativism | |
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| The Expanding City and Its Problems | |
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| Teeming Tenements | |
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| The Cities Modernize | |
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| Leisure Activities: More Fun and Games | |
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| Christianity s Conscience and the Social ;&n hes on imperialism | |
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| Beveridge (Indiana) and Senator George Hoar (Massachusetts) | |
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| United States Senate | |
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| January 9, 1900 14.6 Speech by President William McKinley | |
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| 14.7a Poem by Rudyard Kipling | |
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| The White Man s Burden | |
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| 1899 14.7b Poem by Ernest Howard Crosby | |
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| The Real White Man s Burden, 1899 14.8a Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League | |
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| October 18, 1899 14.8b Speech on imperialism | |
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| United States Senate | |