A streamlined argument guide plus provocative thematic reader, Everything's an Argument with Readings helps students understand and analyze the arguments around them as well as create their own. Lucid explanations cover the classical rhetoric of the ancient Greeks through the multimodal rhetoric of today, with professional and student models of every type. New attention to rhetorical listening skills teaches students to communicate effectively and ethically as they work through potentially contentious discussions in and outside the classroom. Thoroughly updated with fresh new selections in both the guide and the reader, this edition of Everything's an Argument captures the issues and images that matter to students today. LaunchPad for Everything's an Argument provides unique, book-specific materials for your course, such as brief quizzes to test students' comprehension of chapter content and of each reading selection. LearningCurve--adaptive, game-like practice--helps students master important argument concepts, including fallacies, claims, and evidence. Also available in a brief version without the reader.
“This best-selling combination argument text and thematically organized reader shows students how to analyze all kinds of arguments — not just essays and editorials, but clothes, smartphone apps, ads, and Web site designs — and then ...
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Exploratory arguments can also be personal, such as Zora Neale Hurston's ironic exploration of racism and of her own identity in the essay “How It Feels to Be Colored Me.” If you keep a journal or blog, you have no doubt found yourself ...
This best-selling text offers proven instructional content by composition luminaries Andrea Lunsford and John Ruszkiewicz, covering five core types of arguments.
Combines a proven argument text with a thematically organized reader, featuring engaging selections across perspectives and genres. --
... leading them to different conclusions. By discovering the source of a paradox, Gutting potentially opened new avenues for understanding. Exploratory arguments can also be personal, such as Zora Neale Hurston's ironic exploration of ...
Everything's an Argument with Readings (Cloth Text)
The two parts of the book are linked by cross references in the margins, leading students from the argument chapters to specific examples in the readings and from the readings to appropriate rhetorical instruction.
Help students realize their power as authors
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