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| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Persuading with Good Reasons | |
| What do we mean by argument? | |
| What does "argument" | |
| mean for college writers? | |
| How can you argue responsibly? | |
| How can you argue respectfully? | |
| Reading And Discovering Arguments | |
| Why Argue? | |
| Why do people write arguments? | |
| Why do some arguments succeed? | |
| What are the goals of arguments? | |
| What are rhetorical appeals? | |
| Finding Good Reasons | |
| The Obligation to Endure | |
| Reading Arguments | |
| Become a critical reader | |
| Read actively | |
| Recognize fallacies | |
| Respond as a reader | |
| Finding good reasons | |
| Finding Arguments | |
| Find arguments in everyday conversations | |
| Find a topic that interests you | |
| Find a claim by exploring | |
| Find a claim by reading | |
| Find good reasons | |
| Find evidence to support good reasons | |
| Finding good reasons | |
| Drafting and Revising Arguments | |
| State and evaluate your thesis | |
| Think about your readers | |
| Organize your argument | |
| Write an engaging title and introduction | |
| Write a strong conclusion | |
| Evaluate your draft | |
| Respond to the writing of others | |
| Edit and proofread carefully | |
| Finding good reasons | |
| Analyzing Arguments | |
| Analyzing Written Arguments | |
| What is rhetorical analysis? | |
| Build a rhetorical analysis | |
| Analyze the rhetorical features | |
| Analyze the rhetorical context | |
| Write a rhetorical analysis | |
| Statement on the Articles of Impeachment | |
| An Argument of Reason and Passion: Barbara Jordan's "Statement on the Articles of Impeachment" | |
| Steps to writing a rhetorical analysis | |
| Analyzing Visual Arguments | |
| What is a visual argument? | |
| Analyze visual persuasion | |
| Analyze visual evidence | |
| Build a visual analysis | |
| Write a visual analysis | |
| Got Roddick? | |
| Steps to writing a visual analysis | |
| Writing Arguments | |
| Options for Arguments | |
| Use different approaches to construct arguments | |
| Be aware of your goals for argument | |
| Finding good reasons: What do we mean by diversity? | |
| Definition Arguments | |
| Understand how definition arguments work | |
| Recognize kinds of definitions | |
| Build a definition argument | |
| Finding good reasons | |
| Setting the Record Straight | |
| Speech Doesn't Have to Be Pretty to Be Protected | |
| Steps to writing a definition argument | |
| Causal Arguments | |
| Understand how causal arguments work | |
| Find causes | |
| Build a causal argument | |
| Finding good reasons | |
| The Real Marriage Penalty | |
| Why Should I Be Nice to You? Coffee Shops and the Politics of Good Service | |
| Steps to writing a causal argument | |
| Evaluation Arguments | |
| Understand how evaluation arguments work | |
| Recognize kinds of evaluations | |
| Build an evaluation argument | |
| Finding good reasons | |
| Gangsta Rap and American Culture | |
| Stop Loss or "Loss of Trust" | |
| Steps to writing an evaluation argument | |
| Narrative Arguments | |
| Understand how narrative arguments work | |
| Recognize kinds of narrative arguments | |
| Build a narrative argument | |
| Finding good reasons | |
| The Border Patrol State | |
| My Landlady's Yard | |
| Steps to writing a narrative argument | |
| Rebuttal Arguments | |
| Understand how rebuttal arguments work | |
| Recognize the tactics of rebuttal arguments | |
| Build a rebuttal argument | |
| Finding good reasons | |
| Crossing the Line | |
| Illegal Immigrants-They're Money | |
| Steps to writing a rebuttal argument | |
| Proposal Arguments | |
| Understand how proposal arguments work | |
| Recognize components of proposal arguments | |
| Build a proposal argument | |
| Finding good reasons | |
| Coal in a Nice Shade of Green | |
| Let's Make It a Real Melting Pot with Presidential Hopes for All | |
| Steps to writing a proposal argument | |
| Designing And Presenting Arguments | |
| Designing Arguments | |
| Start with your readers | |
| Know when to use images and graphics | |
| Compose and edit images | |
| Create tables, charts, and graphs | |
| Design pages for print | |
| Design pages for the Web | |
| Presenting Arguments | |
| Plan a presentation | |
| Design effective visuals | |
| Give a memorable presentation | |
| Researching Arguments | |
| Planning Research | |
| Analyze the research task | |
| Find a subject | |
| Ask a research question | |
| Gather information about the subject | |
| Draft a working thesis | |
| Finding Sources | |
| Search with keywords | |
| Find books | |
| Find journal articles | |
| Find Web sources | |
| Evaluating and Recording Sources | |
| Evaluate print sources | |
| Find information to cite print sources | |
| Evaluate database sources | |
| Find information to cite a database source | |
| Evaluate Web sources | |
| Find information to cite a Web source | |
| Writing the Research Paper | |
| Review your goals and thesis | |
| Determine your contribution | |
| Determine your main points | |
| Avoid plagiarism | |
| Quote sources without plagiarizing | |
| Summarize and paraphrase sources without plagiarizing | |
| Incorporate quotations | |
| Incorporate visuals | |
| Documenting Sources in MLA Style | |
| Elements of MLA documentation | |
| MLA in-text citations | |
| MLA works-cited list: Books | |
| MLA works-cited list: Periodicals | |
| MLA works-cited list: Library database sources | |
| MLA works-cited list: Other online sources | |
| MLA works-cited list: Other sources | |
| Brian Witkowski (student), Need a Cure for Tribe Fever? How about a Dip in the Lake? | |
| Documenting Sources in APA Style | |
| Elements of APA documentation | |
| In-text citations in APA style | |
| APA references list: Books | |
| APA references list: Library database sources | |
| APA references list: Periodicals | |
| APA references list: Other online sources | |
| APA references list: Other sources | |
| Contemporary Arguments | |
| Negotiating the Environment | |
| American Environmentalism | |
| Contemporary Arguments | |
| The Conservation Ethic | |
| Sidebar: Aldo Leopold, From The Land Ethic | |
| The Way to Rainy Mountain | |
| How Race Affected the Federal Government's Response to Katrina | |
| Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Front | |
| Issue in Focus: Climate Change | |
| What is Global Warming? | |
| Ten Things to Do to Help Stop Global Warming | |
| Christopher C Horner, Top Ten 'Global-Warming' Myths | |
| Environment: Healthy Swamps | |
| And Looking At Our Extended Forecast . . . (cartoon) | |
| Burning at the Stake | |
| Buying into the Green Movement | |
| Fast Clothes vs. Green Clothes (editorial) | |
| Environmentally Unfriendly Trend: Fast Fashion | |
| Sidebar: How Green Is Your T-Shirt? | |
| From Reading to Writing | |
| Confronting Sexual Difference | |
| Sexual Difference in American Culture | |
| Contemporary Arguments | |
| Appearances | |
| Homophobic? Read Your Bible | |
| Struggling Alone | |
| Issue in Focus: Same Sex Marriage | |
| We're Here to Defend . . . (cartoon) | |
| House of Representatives, The Defense of Marriage Act | |
| Evan's Two Moms | |
| A New Tactic In Fighting Marriage Initiatives | |
| From Reading to Writing | |
| Subversion Through Perversion | |
| Coming Out in the Line of Fire | |
| Bad for Both Boys and Girls | |
| The End of Gay Culture | |
| Vanity, Thy Name is Metrosexual | |
| Globalization: Importing and Exporting America | |
| America's Place in the World | |
| Contemporary Arguments | |
| The Bad News Is . . . (cartoon) | |
| No Human Being is Illegal | |
| Beware of Illegal Aliens Seeking Hazmat Licenses | |
| Sidebar, Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus | |
| Sidebar, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Unguarded Gates | |
| Immigration Maze | |
| What's the Worst That Can Happen . . . ? (cartoon) | |
| Under the Sign of Mickey Mouse & Co | |
| Living The Dream | |
| Wal-Mart vs. Pyramids | |
| In Search of Intercultural Competence | |
| Science and Ethics | |
| The Ethics of Science and Technology | |
| Contemporary Arguments | |
| Why the Future Doesn't Need Us | |
| A Tale of Two Dystopias | |
| Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future | |
| Beautiful, Functional and Frugal | |
| A Robot in Every Home | |
| Attitude Screen | |
| Issue in Focus: Stem Cell Research | |
| Speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention | |
| The Ronald Reagan Eulogy Will Be Delivered . . . (cartoon) | |
| Ron Reagan: Wrong on Stem Cells | |
| Don't Clone Ron Reagan's Agenda | |
| From Reading to Writing | |
| Privacy | |
| New Challenges to Personal Privacy | |
| Contemporary Arguments | |
| Three Cheers for the Surveillance Society! | |
| Take my Privacy, Please! | |
| It's Part of the Government's New Emphasis . . . (cartoon) | |
| Traveler's Card Might Just Pave the Way for a National ID Card | |
| Counselors Walk a Fine Line Weighing Rights of Student and College | |
| The End of Youthful Indiscretions: Internet Makes Them Permanent Blots | |
| Issue in Focus: Biometrics and Measuring the Body for Identity | |
| Privacy Implications of Biometrics | |
| A Trail of DNA and Data | |
| Emerging Biometric Technologies | |
| Sidebar: Voice Verification for Transations | |
| Will Cash & Credit Cards Become Extinct in the Not-So-Distant Future? | |
| From Reading to Writing | |
| Regulating Substances/Regulating Bodies | |
| Private Bodies, Public Controls | |
| Contemporary Arguments | |
| The Right Drug to Target: Cutting Marijuana Use | |
| Eric Schlosser, Make Peace with Pot | |
| Issue in Focus: Regulating Tobacco | |
| Camel Lights Ad | |
| American Legacy Foundation, Antismoking Ad | |
| Doonesbury: The Sin Lobby Gins Up . . (cartoon) | |
| The Necessity of Global Tobacco Regulations | |
| Nazi Tactics | |
| From Reading to Writing | |
| What's This? (cartoon) | |
| Drugstore Athlete | |
| Citizenship and Disability | |
| New Yorker | |
| Cover | |
| Please Save Us! | |
| Those Extra Pounds-Are They Government's Business? | |
| A Secret Society of the Starving | |
| Consumer Freedom, Obesity Ads | |
| Modified | |
| The Subtext of All Tattoos (cartoon) | |
| Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Like Father Like Son Ad | |
| A Rare Kind of Rush: A Sorority Based on Islamic Principles | |
| New Media | |
| Personal Space in Cyberspace | |
| Contemporary Arguments | |
| Is Google's Data Grinder Dangerous? | |
| A False Wikipedia "Biography" | |
| Sidebar: John Perry Barlow, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace | |
| Information Superhighway (cartoon) | |
| Where the Avatars Roam | |
| Alternate Universe | |
| Sidebar: Joe Duffy and Andrew Keen, Can Anyone Be a Designer? | |
| Putting on Lip Gloss, and a Show, for YouTube Viewers | |
| Facebook's 'Privacy Trainwreck': Exposure, Invasion, and Drama (blog) | |
| Getting off the Couch | |
| Appendix: A Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| Glossary | |
| Credits | |
| Index | |
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