Writing Arguments, Brief Edition A Rhetoric with Readings

by Ramage, John D.; Bean, John C.; Johnson, June C

• ISBN13: 9780205665761
• ISBN10: 0205665764
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-07
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

The market-leading guide to arguments,Writing Arguments, Brief edition, 8/e, has proven highly successful in teaching readers to read arguments critically and to produce effective arguments of their own. The text teaches how to write better arguments, and how to research for arguments.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Overview of Argument

Argument: An Introduction What Do We Mean by Argument?

Argument Is Not a Fight or a Quarrel Argument Is Not Pro-Con Debate Arguments

Can Be Explicit or Implicit

Let the Facts Decide, Not Fear The Defining Features of Argument Argument Requires Justification of Its Claims Argument

Is Both a Process and a Product Argument Combines Truth Seeking and Persuasion Argument and the Problem of Truth

A Successful Process of Argumentation: The Well-Functioning Committee

ldquo;Petition to Waive the University Mathematics Requirementrdquo;

Conclusion

Argument as Inquiry: Reading and Exploring Finding Issues to Explore

Do Some Initial Brainstorming

Be Open to the Issues All Around You

Explore Ideas by Freewriting

Explore Ideas by Idea-Mapping

Explore Ideas by Playing the Believing and Doubting Game Placing Texts in a Rhetorical Context

Genres of Argument

Cultural Contexts: Who Writes Arguments and Why?

Analyzing Rhetorical Context and Genre Reading to Believe an Argumentrsquo;s Claims

Amnesty?

Summary Writing as a Way of Reading to Believe

Practicing Believing: Willing Your Own Belief in the Writerrsquo;s Views Reading to Doubt Thinking Dialectically

Questions to Stimulate Dialectic Thinking

Why Blame Mexico?

Three Ways to Foster Dialectic Thinking

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