Full Description
Offering more perspectives on argument than any other writing guide! This argument rhetoric-reader offers you the most complete coverage of argumentation methods, including invaluable and unparalleled summary charts. Perspectives on Argument teaches you strategies for critical reading, critical thinking, research, and writing that will help you participate in all types of argument both inside and outside the classroom. NEW FEATURES *Two new chapters on Fallacies and Visual and Oral Argument *New readings and three new issue areas: Freedom, The Future, War and Peace *Expanded Website at www prenhall.com/wood with questions and contextual links for every reading, as well as new visual argument exercises and activities
Contents
The Rhetoric. I. ENGAGING WITH ARGUMENT FOR READING AND WRITING. 1. A Perspective on Argument. 2. Developing Your Personal Argument Style. 3. A Process for Reading Argument. 4. A Process for Writing Argument. II. UNDERSTANDING THE NATURE OF ARGUMENT FOR READING AND WRITING. 5. The Essential Part s of an Argument: The Toulmin Model. 6. Types of Claims. 7. Types of Proof. 8. The Fallacies or Pseudoproofs. 9. Rogerian Argument and Common Ground. III. WRITING A RESEARCH PAPER THAT PRESENTS AN ARGUMENT. 10. The Research Paper: Clarifying Purpose and Understanding the Audience. 11. The Research Paper: Invention and Research. 12. The Research Paper: Organizing, Writing, and Revising. IV. FURTHER APPLICATIONS: VISUAL AND ORAL ARGUMENT - ARGUMENT AND LITERATURE. 13. Visual and Oral Argument. 14. Argument and Literature. THE READER. I. Issues Concerning Families, Marriages, and Relationships. 1. What is the Status of the Traditional American Family? How Far Are We Willing to Go to Find Alternatives? 2. What Are the Benefits and Pitfalls of Being Married? 3. What Creates Successful Relationships? What Causes Them to Fail? II. Issues in Education. 1. What Should Colleges and Universities Teach? Is There Anything They Should Not Teach? 2. What Helps Students Learn and Succeed in College? What Hinders Them? III. Issues Concerning Crime and the Treatment of Criminals. 1. How Should We Treat Convicted Criminals? 2. What Should Be Done with Young Offenders? IV. Issues Concerning Race, Culture and Identity. 1. How Do Race and Culture Contribute to an Individuals Sense of Identity? 2. To What Extent Should Individuals Allow Their Cultural Heritage to Be Assimilated? V. Issues Concerning Freedom. 1. How Rigorously Should We Protect Our Civil Liberties? 3. How Does Profiling Threaten Civil Liberties? The Color of Suspicion, Jeffrey Goldberg. Patriotism vs. Ethnic Pride: An VI. Issues Concerning the Future. 1. What Are Some Possible Issues for the Future? 2. What Might Affect the Future of Human Beings? 3. What Might Affect the Future of the Planet? VII. Issues Concerning War and Peace. 1. Is War Inevitable? 2. How Do People Justify War? 3. What Might Help Establish Peace? Topic Index. Author-Title Index.
