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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 | |