The Informed Argument: A Multidisciplinary Reader and Guide

by MILLER

Edition:

5th

ISBN13:

9780155038097

ISBN10:

0155038095

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Pub. Date:

7/30/1997

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Wadsworth Publishing

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The Informed Argument has been designed to ehlp you argue on the behalf of your beliefs so that other people will tale them seriously. Readers and writers learn from considering diverse points of view and deciding how they inform each other. Argument is not about "winning" or "losing;" it is a process devoted to finding solutions about problems. When this process is undertaken honestly, everyone stands to benefit. Thorughout The Informed Argument, specific strategies are given on how to present a well-organized point of view.

Preface for Students

Preface for Instructors

vii

PART 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO ARGUMENT

(62)

Choosing a Topic

(2)

Defining Your Audience

(8)

To Skip or Not to Skip: A Student Dilemma

(2)

Karen Rivedal

Absent at What Price?

(3)

Karen Rivedal

Defining Your Terms

(4)

Homicide

(3)

Geoff Rulland

Planning Your Argument

(24)

Classical Arrangement

(2)

Rogerian Argument

(3)

Using Logic

(1)

Reasoning Inductively

(2)

In Defense of Hunting

(7)

David Wagner

Reasoning Deductively

(6)

Preparation for Real Life

(6)

Kerstin LaPorte

Reasoning by Using the Toulmin Model

(2)

History Is for People Who Think

(3)

Ron Tackett

Avoiding Logical Fallacies

(6)

Appealing to Pity

(1)

Appealing to Prejudice

(1)

Appealing to Tradition

(1)

Arguing by Analogy

(1)

Attacking the Character of Opponents

(1)

Attributing False Causes

(1)

Attributing Guilt by Association

(1)

Begging the Question

(1)

Equivocating

(1)

Ignoring the Question

(1)

Jumping to Conclusions

(1)

Opposing a Straw Man

(1)

Presenting a False Dilemma

(1)

Reasoning That Does Not Follow

(1)

Sliding Down a Slippery Slope

(1)

Understanding Other Forms of Persuasion

(17)

Analyzing Advertisements

(5)

Recognizing Flaws in Persuasion

(1)

Bogus Claims

(1)

Loaded Terms

(7)

Misrepresentation

(3)

PART 2 WORKING WITH SOURCES

(30)

Reading Critically

(9)

Previewing

(1)

How Long Is This Work?

(1)

What Can I Learn from the Title?

(1)

Do I Know Anything about the Author?

(1)

What Do I Know about the Publisher?

(1)

Is There Anything Else I Can Discover by Skimming through the Material?

(1)

Annotating

(2)

Summarizing

(2)

Synthesizing

(2)

Avoiding Plagiarism

(2)

Documenting Your Sources

(19)

Parenthetical Documentation: The MLA Author/Work Style

(3)

Parenthetical Documentation: The APA Author/Year Style

(1)

Organizing a Bibliography

(1)

Works Cited in MLA Style

(5)

References in APA Style

(4)

Numbered Systems

(2)

A Checklist for Documentation

(2)

PART 3 A GUIDE TO RESEARCH

(28)

Getting Started

(1)

Avoiding Selective Research

(1)

Searching For Magazine and Journal Articles

(6)

Searching for Newspaper Articles

101

(2)

Using Abstracting Services

103

(1)

Using the Internet

104

(4)

Looking for Books

108

(4)

Using the Main Catalog

108

(3)

Understanding Classification Systems

111

(1)

Using Other Library Resources

112

(1)

Conducting Interviews and Surveys

113

(1)

Compiling a Preliminary Bibliography

114

(2)

Taking Notes

116

(1)

Organizing a Researched Paper

117

(1)

Writing a Researched Paper

118

(1)

Preparing Your Final Draft

119

(2)

A Checklist for Manuscript Form

120

(1)

PART 4 NEGOTIATING DIFFERENCES

121

(52)

Responses to Public Education

123

(4)

The Case for School Vouchers

123

(2)

Jerome J. Hanus

There's No Escape Clause in the Social Contract

125

(2)

Peter W. Cookson, Jr.

Suggestion for Writing

127

(1)

Responses to Grading

127

(5)

A for Effort

127

(2)

John Leo

A Proposal to Abolish Grading

129

(3)

Paul Goodman

Suggestion for Writing

131

(1)

Responses to Cloning

132

(4)

Study Cloning, Don't Ban It

132

(2)

Daniel J. Kevles

Hello Dolly

134

(2)

Ellen Goodman

Suggestion for Writing

136

(1)

Responses to Physician-Assisted Suicide

136

(8)

Make Mine Hemlock

136

(5)

Ernest Van Den Haag

Rush to a Lethal Judgment

141

(3)

Stephen L. Carter

Suggestion for Writing

144

(1)

Responses to Affirmative Action

144

(13)

Reclaiming the Vision

145

(8)

Constance Horner

Reaffirming Our Actions

153

(4)

Michael Tomasky

Suggestion for Writing

157

(1)

Responses to Public Funding for the Arts

157

(16)

Is the NEA for Everyone? Margaret Spillane

158

(4)

The Velvet Prison and the Closed Academy

162

(11)

Gene Edward Veith

Suggestion for Writing

171

(2)

PART 5 SOURCES FOR ARGUMENT

173

(408)

Gun Control: Triggering A National Controversy

173

(39)

NRA Woman's Voice

173

(3)

Elizabeth J. Swasey

Domestic Disarmament: A Women's Issue?

176

(6)

Ruth Rosen

In the Heat of the Moment

182

(3)

James D. Wright

The NRA Is Right

185

(6)

Josh Sugarmann

Second Defense

191

(4)

Roger Koopman

Second Reading

195

(9)

Daniel D. Polsby

White Man's Law

204

(6)

William R. Tonso

One Student's Assignment: A Summary of William Tonso's ``White Man's Law,''

210

(2)

Sara Jenkins

Suggestions for Writing

211

(1)

Collaborative Project

211

(1)

Immigration: Who Gets to Become an American?

212

(42)

The New Colossus

212

(1)

Emma Lazarus

Gatecrashers

213

(4)

Michael Kinsley

Illegal Immigration: How to Turn the Tide

217

(2)

Gary S. Becker

A Nation of Immigrants

219

(5)

Peter Brimelow

Making It Big in America

224

(6)

Denise Topolnicki

The New Economics of Immigration

230

(11)

George J. Borjas

The INS Mess

241

(8)

Weston Kosova

One Student's Assignment: Another Look at the Economics of Immigration

249

(5)

Janelle Anderson

Christopher J. Lovrien

Suggestions for Writing

252

(1)

Collaborative Project

253

(1)

Same-Gender Marriage: What Is A Family?

254

(34)

Why Can't We Get Married?

254

(3)

Lisa Bennett

Gay Marriage, an Oxymoron

257

(2)

Lisa Schiffren

Simple Equality

259

(2)

Andrew Sullivan

An Honorable Estate

261

(3)

William J. Bennett

Wedded to an Illusion

264

(10)

Fenton Johnson

Accepting Limits

274

(4)

Jean Bethke Elshtain

A Case for Gay Marriage

278

(6)

Brent Hartinger

One Student's Assignment: Speak Now or Forever Hold the Past

284

(4)

Dana Simonson

Suggestions for Writing

286

(1)

Collaborative Project

287

(1)

Sexual Harassment: Defining the Boundaries

288

(73)

Sexual Harassment: What to Do?

288

(6)

Anne B. Fisher

Bared Buttocks and Federal Cases

294

(7)

Ellen Frankel Paul

Marriage and Patronage in the Empowerment and Disempowerment of African American Women

301

(17)

Anita Faye Hill

Man Handling

318

(3)

Harsh Luthar

Anthony Townsend

Gender Dilemmas in Sexual Harassment Policies and Procedures

321

(19)

Stephanie Riger

Title VII as Censorship: Hostile-Environment Harassment and the First Amendment

340

(17)

Kingsley R. Browne

One Student's Assignment: What Managers Need to Know: A Synthesis of Arguments Concerning Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

357

(4)

Jessica Cozzens

Suggestions for Writing

360

(1)

Collaborative Project

360

(1)

Surfing the Web: Who Controls Information?

361

(89)

The Rights of Kids in the Digital Age

361

(12)

Jon Katz

Free or Fettered?

373

(12)

Paul F. Burton

Welcome to Cyberbia

385

(9)

May Kadi

BigBrother@cyberspace

394

(11)

Erik Ness

Pornography on the Internet

405

(5)

Nancy Willard

The Effect of Applying Current Anti-Obscenity Laws to Online Communications

410

(35)

Robert F. Goldman

One Student's Assgnment: Regulation of the Internet

445

(5)

B. J. Nodzon

Suggestions for Writing

448

(1)

Collaborative Project

449

(1)

Culture and Curriculum: What Should Students be Taught?

450

(58)

Multiculturalism: Myths and Realities

450

(9)

Hugh B. Price

An Educated and Culturally Literate Person Must Study America's Multicultural Reality

459

(4)

Ronald Takaki

What Is Multicultural Education?

463

(7)

Christine E. Sleeter

The Visigoths in Tweed

470

(10)

Dinesh D'Souza

Multicultural Education and Feminist Ethics

480

(13)

Marilyn Friedman

The Value of the Canon

493

(12)

Irving Howe

One Student's Assignment: The Great Conversation

505

(3)

Alicia Fedorczak

Suggestions for Writing

507

(1)

Collaborative Project

507

(1)

National Parks: What Is Their Future?

508

(73)

It's Time to Privatize

508

(5)

Terry L. Anderson

They're Not for Sale

513

(4)

Melanie Griffin

Promises, Promises

517

(6)

William R. Lowry

Reinventing Nature

523

(17)

Kenneth R. Olwig

The Trouble with Wilderness

540

(22)

William Cronon

Missing Links

562

(9)

Dave Foreman

A Report from the General Accounting Office

571

(5)

James Duffus

One Student's Assignment: Preserving Our Parks

576

(5)

Amy Karlen

Suggestions for Writing

579

(1)

Collaborative Project

580

(1)

PART 6 SOME CLASSIC ARGUMENTS

581

(110)

The Allegory of the Cave

581

(7)

Plato

Should Princes Tell the Truth?

588

(3)

Niccolo Machiavelli

To His Coy Mistress

591

(2)

Andrew Marvell

A Modest Proposal

593

(8)

Jonathan Swift

The Declaration of Independence

601

(5)

Thomas Jefferson

The Playthings of Tyrants

606

(6)

Mary Wollstonecraft

The Communist Manifesto

612

(11)

Karl Marx

Friedrich Engels

Concerning Children

623

(4)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Cause of War, Margaret Sanger

627

(6)

The Purpose of Propaganda

633

(8)

Adolf Hitler

Brahmacharya

641

(6)

Mahatma Gandhi

Dealing with Breakdowns in Communication

647

(6)

Carl Rogers

The Obligation to Endure

653

(6)

Rachel Carson

Letter from Birmingham Jail

659

(14)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Importance of Work

673

(8)

Betty Friedan

Suggestions for Writing

677

(1)

Collaborative Project

678

(3)

Appendix: Student Research Paper

Crime, Crack, and Kids

681

(10)

John T. Smith

Glossary of Useful Terms

691

(4)

Copyrights and Acknowledgments

695

(8)

Index

703

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