Argument in Composition
- ISBN-10
- 1602353158
- ISBN-13
- 9781602353152
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 271
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-09-14
- Publisher
- Parlor Press LLC
- Authors
- John Ramage, Micheal Callaway
Description
ARGUMENT IN COMPOSITION provides access to a wide range of resources that bear on the teaching of writing and argument. The ideas of major theorists of classical and contemporary rhetoric and argument-from Aristotle to Burke, Toulmin, and Perelman-are explained and elaborated, especially as they inform pedagogies of argumentation and composition.
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