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Pairing a best-selling argument text with a thematic reader, Everything’s an Argument with Readings teaches students to analyze the arguments that surround them every day and to create their own. The book starts with proven instructional content by composition luminaries Andrea Lunsford and John Ruszkiewicz, covering five core types of arguments. Revised based on feedback from its large and devoted community of users, the seventh edition offers a new chapter on multimedia argument and more than 35 readings across perspectives and genres, from academic essays and newspaper editorials to tweets and infographics.
Everything’s an Argument is also available in a brief version without the reader.
Preface Part 1: Reading and Understanding Arguments 1. Everything Is an Argument Why We Make Arguments Occasions for Argument Kinds of Argument STASIS QUESTIONS AT WORK Appealing to Audiences CULTURAL CONTEXTS FOR ARGUMENT 2. Arguments Based on Emotion: Pathos Reading Critically for Pathos Using Emotions to Build Bridges Using Emotions to Sustain an ArgumentUsing Humor Using Arguments Based on Emotion 3. Arguments Based on Character: Ethos Thinking Critically About Arguments Based on Character Establishing Trustworthiness and Credibility Claiming Authority Coming Clean about Motives CULTURAL CONTEXTS FOR ARGUMENT 4. Arguments Based on Facts and Reason: Logos Thinking Critically About Hard Evidence Using Reason and Common Sense CULTURAL CONTEXTS FOR ARGUMENT Providing Logical Structures for Argument 5. Fallacies of Argument Fallacies of Emotional Argument Fallacies of Ethical Argument Fallacies of Logical Argument 6. Rhetorical Analysis Composing a Rhetorical Analysis Understanding the Purpose of Arguments You Are Analyzing Understanding Who Makes an Argument Identifying and Appealing to Audiences Examining Arguments Based on Emotion: Pathos Examining Arguments Based on Character: Ethos Examining Arguments Based on Facts and Reason: Logos Examining the Arrangement and Media of Arguments Looking at Style Examining a Rhetorical Analysis David Brooks, It’s Not about You Rachel Kolb, Understanding Brooks’s Binaries (student essay) GUIDE TO WRITING A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS Part 2: Writing Arguments 7. Structuring Arguments The Classical Oration Rogerian and Invitational ArgumentsToulmin Argument Deborah Tannen, Why Is Compromise Now a Dirty Word? CULTURAL CONTEXTS FOR ARGUMENT 8. Arguments of Fact Understanding Arguments of Fact Characterizing Factual Arguments Developing a Factual Argument GUIDE TO WRITING AN ARGUMENT OF FACT Projects Two Sample Factual Arguments Taylor Pearson, Why You Should Fear Your Toaster More Than Nuclear Power (student essay) *Neil Irwin, What the Numbers Show about NFL Player Arrests 9. Arguments of Definition Understanding Arguments of Definition Kinds of Definition Developing a Definitional Argument GUIDE TO WRITING AN ARGUMENT OF DEFINITION Projects Two Sample Definitional Arguments *Natasha Rodriguez, Who Are You Calling Underprivileged? (student essay) *Joyce Xinran Liu, Friending: The Changing Definition of Friendship in the Social Media Era 10. Evaluations Understanding Evaluations Criteria of Evaluation Characterizing Evaluation Developing an Evaluative Argument GUIDE TO WRITING AN EVALUATION Projects Two Sample Evaluations Sean Kamperman, The Wikipedia Game: Boring, Pointless, or Neither? (student essay) *Hayley Tsukayama, My Awkward Week with Google Glass [New]11. Causal Arguments Understanding Causal Arguments Characterizing Causal Arguments Developing Causal Arguments GUIDE TO WRITING A CAUSAL ARGUMENT Projects Two Sample Causal Arguments *Raven Jiang, Dota 2: The Face of Professional Gaming (student essay) John Tierney, Can a Playground Be Too Safe? 12. Proposals Understanding and Categorizing Proposals Characterizing Proposals Developing Proposals GUIDE TO WRITING A PROPOSAL Projects Two Sample Proposals Manasi Deshpande, A Call to Improve Campus Accessibility (student essay) *Virginia Postrel, Let’s Charge Politicians for Wasting Our Time Part 3: Style and Presentation in Arguments 13. Style in Arguments Style and Word Choice Sentence Structure and Argument Punctuation and Argument Special Effects: Figurative Language CULTURAL CONTEXTS FOR ARGUMENT 14. Visual Rhetoric The Power of Visual Arguments Using Visuals in Your Own Arguments 15. Presenting Arguments Class and Public DiscussionsCULTURAL CONTEXTS FOR ARGUMENT Preparing a Presentation * 16. Multimedia Arguments Old Media Transformed by New Media New Content in New Media New Audiences in New Media Analyzing Multimedia Arguments Making Multimedia Arguments Part 4: Research and Arguments 17. Academic Arguments Understanding What Academic Argument Is Developing an Academic Argument Two Sample Academic Arguments *Charlotte Geaghan-Breiner, Where the Wild Things Should Be: Healing Nature Deficit Disorder through the Schoolyard (student essay) Lan Xue, China: The Prizes and Pitfalls of Progress 18. Finding Evidence Considering the Rhetorical Situation Cultural Contexts for ArgumentUsing Data and Evidence from Research Sources SEARCHING ONLINE OR IN DATABASES Collecting Data on Your Own 19. Evaluating Sources Assessing Print Sources Assessing Electronic Sources Assessing Field Research 20. Using Sources Practicing Infotention Building a Critical Mass Synthesizing Information 21. Plagiarism and Academic Integrity Giving Credit Getting Permission for and Using Copyrighted Internet Sources Acknowledging Your Sources Accurately and Appropriately Acknowledging Collaboration 22. Documenting Sources MLA Style APA Style Part 5: Arguments 23. How Does Popular Culture Stereotype You? Stephanie Hanes, Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect *Making a Visual Argument: Cartoons and Stereotypes *Amy Stretten, Appropriating Native American Imagery Honors No One But the Prejudice Charles A. Riley II, Disability and the Media: Prescriptions for Change Claude M. Steele, from Whistling Vivaldi and Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us *Melina C. R. Burgess, et al., Playing with Prejudice: The Prevalence and Consequences of Racial Stereotypes in Video Games *Amy Zimmerman, It Ain’t Easy Being Bisexual on TV *24. What’s Globalization Doing to Language? *Lebanon Daily News, Coca-Cola’s Multilingual “America” Ad Didn’t Hit Any Wrong Notes *Kirk Semple, Immigrants Who Speak Indigenous Languages Encounter Isolation *Scott L. Montgomery, from Does Science Need a Global Language?: English and the Future of Research *Making a Visual Argument: Santos Henarejos, Speak My Language [Infographic] *Nicholas Ostler, Is It Globalization that Endangers Languages? *Rosa Eveleth, Saving Languages Through Korean Soap Operas25. Why Is Sustainability Important When It Comes to Food? *Christian R. Weisser, “Sustainability” *Robert Paarlberg, Attention Whole Foods Shoppers *Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp, “‘Springing Forward’” and “‘The Strange Case of Percy Schmeiser’” from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle *David H. Freedman, Are Engineered Foods Evil? Making a Visual Argument: Claire Ironside, Apples to Oranges Eric Mortenson, A Diversified Farm Prospers in Oregon’s Willamette Valley by Going Organic and Staying Local *Katherine Gustafson, from Change Comes to Dinner 26. What Should “Diversity on Campus” Mean and Why? *Making a Visual Argument: Diversity Posters *Deena Prichep, A Campus More Colorful than Reality: Beware That College Brochure *Sarah Fraas, Trans Women at Smith: The Complexities of Checking “Female” *Young M. Kim and James S. Cole, Student Veterans/Service Members’ Engagement in College and University Education *Shabana Mir, from Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life and Identity *Sheryll Cashin, from Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America Walter Benn Michaels, The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality *27. How Has the Internet Changed the Meaning of Privacy? *Daniel J. Solove, The Nothing-to-Hide Argument *Rebecca Greenfield, What Your Email Metadata Told the NSA About You *Making a Visual Argument: Cartoons *danah boyd and Kate Crawford, from “Six Provocations for Big Data” *Todd Zwillich and Christian Rudder, It’s Not OK Cupid: Co-Founder Defends User Experiments *Supreme Court of the United States, Riley v. California *Amy Davidson, Four Ways the Riley Ruling Matters for the NSA Glossary Index
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