This ebook has been updated to provide you with the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021). More than ever, successful argumentation is a major part of academic success—and has plenty of real-world application. But students don’t benefit when they are bogged down with technical jargon and abstraction. That’s where Practical Argument comes in. Bestselling authors Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell make argumentative writing accessible with a scaffolded, step-by-step approach to convey what students need to know about argument, in understandable language. The Fourth Edition includes an even more contemporary and diverse array of readings, as well as new coverage of the kinds of visual arguments students are likely to encounter in their everyday lives.
The short fourth edition includes a more contemporary and diverse array of readings than ever, as well as expanded coverage of visual arguments.
This affordable guide can stand alone or supplement a larger anthology of readings.
This ebook has been updated to provide you with the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).
With just eighteen readings, this affordable guide can stand alone or complement an anthology.
This ebook has been updated to provide you with the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).
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The new edition has been thoroughly revised with engaging new readings by diverse writers, a stronger foundation in reading and writing, and new graphic organizers to visually outline how to use each method.
The fourteenth edition has been thoroughly revised with engaging new readings by remarkable and diverse writers, a stronger foundation in reading and writing, and new graphic organizers to visually outline how to use each method.
Carefully structured reading and writing questions and discussion prompts before, during, and after the readings guide students as they move from comprehension toward critical thinking and inquiry.
A much-needed guide to thinking critically for oneself and how to tell a good argument from a bad one. Includes topical examples from politics, sport, medicine, music, chapter summaries, glossary and exercises.