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Discovering Arguments: An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Writing, 3/E
William PalmerAlma College

ISBN-10: 013602646X
ISBN-13:  9780136026464

Publisher:  Longman
Copyright:  2009
Format:  Paper; 672 pp
Published:  08/01/2008


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The only argument rhetoric/reader that emphasizes style throughout.

Presenting a holistic view of content and style, this all-in-one argument rhetoric, reader, research guide and handbook helps students analyze and evaluate what they read, argue persuasively, and communicate more clearly than they ever have before.  Students discover, internalize and apply at increasing levels of sophistication the impact of persuasive appeals (logos, pathos and ethos), the principles of critical thinking and the hallmarks of effective style through more than 200 embedded, guided activities directed at their own papers.


Features

Logos, Pathos, and Ethos:  Discovering Arguments presents the classical persuasive appeals throughout the text as the essential argument paradigm.

  

Five unique “interchapters” on style and voice — after each of the first five chapters.

~Enables students to learn about language in positive ways so they can excel at what they say as well as how they say it.  Through guided activities students learn how to use semicolons, colons, and dashes to connect their thoughts in more powerful ways.  Students learn how to use repetition, parallel structure, and sentence variety.  ~ Each style interchapter contains numerous embedded activities to reinforce the concepts and directs students immediately to extend those concepts to their own drafts.  Interchapters also guide students on how to solve common problems with diction, punctuation, and sentences. 

 

The Foundation Chapter.  In Chapter 1, students learn about writing an opinion essay using their own experience and knowledge for supporting evidence.  They examine three model essays written by college students and published in the “My Turn” column of Newsweek.  Students see that they too can write about issues that matter to them and to others.  Chapter 1 introduces students to the process of thinking and to the persuasive appeals of logos, pathos, and ethos, guiding students to use them intentionally in their opinion essay.  The chapter also includes the clearest, most comprehensive advice on writing engaging titles, introductions and conclusions of any textbook on the market.  Chapter 1 provides a strong foundation for students as they progress through the book.

 

Strategies of Argumentation.  Chapter 3 begins with an expanded section on using opposites to help students generate and analyze ideas.  Students examine contradictions and paradoxes to find topics for their own writing.  They learn to develop a higher tolerance for ambiguity and a lower tolerance for either/or thinking.  No other textbook encourages students to examine dialectical thinking as fully as this book does.  In this chapter students also discover ways to use creative thinking skills—such as writing analogies—to complement critical thinking skills.  This chapter ends with students invited to write an essay defining a word, drawing from the strategies presented.

 

Over 200 guided discovery activities throughout the text-- systematically lead students to understand the most important ideas in argumentation and to apply them immediately to their own writing, reading and thinking.

   

Readings by a wide variety of professional writers-- e.g., Mitch Albom, Ellen Goodman, Kathleen Parker, Leonard Pitts, Rick Reilly, Thomas Sowell, and Deborah Tannen.

 

Four chapters devoted to research and research writing—Based on guidelines of both MLA and APA styles. ~Offers students comprehensive chapters on research strategies (including virtual libraries), evaluation of evidence—especially Internet sources, documentation, and detailed guidelines for writing reports and argument papers.

 

A full section on “Grammar, Mechanics, and Usage” teaches students to recognize and correct basic sentence problems such as comma splices, fragments, agreement, punctuation, and other language skills. 

 


New To This Edition

NEW! A major revision on research writing has been added to the Third Edition, complete with new activities on summarizing, paraphrasing, and avoiding plagiarism.  

 

NEW!  Enhanced research chapters containing “Ryan’s Process Notes” which follow a student through his journey on finding a topic, obtaining research, and writing an argument paper.

 

NEW! Additions to Chapter 8 Evaluating Evidence!  This includes “The Wikipedia Dilemma,” in which students evaluate articles supporting or opposing Wikipedia.  In “Going Beyond the Information Given,” students do research on one essay that contains references to authorities and published studies; students examine how the authorities and studies are credible.  This new activity prepares students to writer a longer research paper.

 

NEW!  New Essays in Chapter 2 for three case studies:Drinking Age, Cheating for Success, and Same-Sex Marriage.  Also, new essays for students to explore in a report:  “Preventing Another Massacre,” “The Gun Lobby’s Counterattack,” “Children Last,” “Video Game Violence and Our Sons,” “No Change in Political Climate,” The Divide in Caring for Our Kids,” and “Expedience No Reason to Kill a Man.”

 

NEW!  New Emphasis on the Toulmin Method -- which now begins Chapter 4.  Featuring a close analysis of  “The Tense Middle,” an essay by Nobel-prize winning chemist Roald Hoffmann written for This I Believe.  After the presentation of the Toulmin method, Chapter 4 offers a comprehensive treatment of logical fallacies in the section Problems in Reasoning. 

 

NEW!  Humor as a Strategy of Argument — with readings by Dave Barry, Anne Lamott, Rick Reilly, as well as selections from the satirical Web site The Onion.

 

NEW!  New photographs, advertisements, and editorial cartoons in Chapter 5 Visual Argument for students to analyze, as well as a revised section on writing about film. 

 

NEW!  Biographical notes on authors for all readings. 

 

NEW!  New poems, stories, and literary nonfiction in Chapter 6.  Including a new student essay on Robert Hayden’s classic poem “Those Winter Sundays,” serving as a model for analyzing and evaluating a literary text. 

 

NEW!  Presenting Yourself in E-Mail.  Interchapter 5 includes a new section on students presenting themselves through e-mail.  In an e-mail exchange between a student and instructor, the instructor raises the issue of the student using careless grammar and spelling in her e-mails. 

 


Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1

COMMUNICATION AND PERSUASION: LOGOS, PATHOS, ETHOS                                      

Noticing and Thinking                                                                                                         

The process of thinking

The paradigm shift

Communicating Clearly and Effectively

Amy Wu, Stop the Clock

Specific evidence

Brian A. Courtney, Freedom from Choice

Writing an Opinion Essay

Finding your subject

Writing Persuasively

The Persuasive Appeals

Logos 

Recognizing logos

S. I. Hayakawa, On Human Survival   

Pathos     

Recognizing pathos  

Julia Kraus, If I Told You, Would You Want to Hear?

 

Rick Reilly, Making Up for Lost Time

Humor as pathos

Ethos

Recognizing ethos

John Edwards, A Trust Worth Winning

New York Times, Editorial, A Moment of Grace

Thesis Statements

Evaluating your thesis statement

Engaging Your Audience: Titles, Introductions, Conclusions

Features of good titles      

Title strategies

Titles to avoid

Features of good introductions

Introductory strategies

Introductions to avoid

Features of good conclusions

Concluding strategies

Conclusions to avoid

How to Annotate

Vicki L. Wilson, My Smile Is Worth More Than Face Value

Ryan Grady Sample, Bigger, But Not Better

 

 

Guide for Evaluating Writing

A Note of Defining Grammar, Mechanics, and Usage

 

INTERCHAPTER 1

STYLE AND VOICE

Diction

Monosyllabic words      

Multisyllabic words

Pretentious writing

Other Features of Diction

Specific or general      

Concrete or abstract

Literal or figurative 

Literal language

Figurative language   

Avoid cliches        

Precise words

Voice

The writing situation and voice

Tone

Analyzing attitude toward readers

Analyzing attitudes toward subject and self

 

Sentence Tools

Simple sentences     

Joining complete thoughts: coordination

Using semicolons to join complete thoughts

Using semicolons with formal transition words

Solving Two Common Sentence Problems

Comma splices

Run-on sentences

                                                                              

CHAPTER 2

ARGUMENTS AND CONTROVERSIES

Critical Reading and Writing: Agree, Disagree or Maybe Both?

Deborah Tannen, How to Turn Debate into Dialogue

Reading Tools

Asking questions       

Noticing insights       

Noticing assumptions      

Noticing overgeneralizations

ExploringTwo Essays on a Controversy

Analysis and evaluation of Mitch Albom’s essay

Mitch Albom, Don’t Shoot Holes in Gun Control Bills

Albom’s writing situation

 

Albom’s introduction

Noticing Albom’s insights, assumptions, and overgeneralizations

Responding to other arguments

Albom’s use of logos, pathos, and ethos

What is the solution?

Albom’s conclusion

Analysis and evaluation of Thomas Sowell’s essay

            Thomas Sowell, Mass Shootings and Mass Hysteria

Two methods for analyzing an essay: outlining and summarizing

Outline of Sowell’s essay

Summary of Sowell’s essay

Sowell’s writing situation

Sowell’s introduction

Noticing Sowell’s insights, assumptions, and overgeneralizations

Responding to other arguments

Sowell’s use of logos, pathos, and ethos

What is the solution?

Sowell’s conclusion

Albom and Sowell: What Do You Conclude?

Mike Gallagher, Preventing Another Massacre

Hillary Hylton, The Gun Lobby’s Counterattack

Guns and More Guns, Editorial, New York Times                  

 

Kinds of Evidence for Arguing: Examples, Reasons, Authorities, Statistics

Using examples  

Illustration      

Using reasons

Using authorities      

Using statistics

Writing an Essay about a Local Issue               

Writing a Report to Explore an Argument

FiveEssays on Controversial Issues for a Report          

Women in Combat

Kathleen Parker, Children Last

Video Games and Violence

Rebecca Hagelin, Video Game Violence and Our Sons          

Global Climate Change

Ellen Goodman, No Change in Political Climate

Health Care for All Children

Bob Herbert, The Divide in Caring for Our Kids

Capital Punishment

Leonard Pitts Jr., Expedience No Reason to Kill a Man

Writing an Essay with Sources about a Controversy

Organizing an essay about a controversy

Present the other side first                 

 

Rogerian argument    

Ending your essay

Student model essay               

Readings on Controversial Issues: Three Case Studies                                                                  

Drinking Age

Barbara Kantrowitz and Anne Underwood, The Teen Drinking DilemmaRobert Voas, There's No Benefit to Lowering the Drinking AgeJohn J. Miller, The Case Against 21Choose Responsibility, Education

Cheating for Success

Michael Josephson and Melissa Mertz, From Honor Above All     

ABCNEWS, A Cheating Crisis in America's Schools

ABCNEWS, An Educator’s Worst Nightmare

Joe Smith, Mark Pogge, Jane Doe, Student Comments on the Ethics of Cheating

Charlotte Allen, Their Cheatin' Hearts

Same-Sex Marriage     

Patricia Bertuccio, Coming Out: Parents Learn True Meaning of Family after Both Son and Daughter Announce They Are Gay

Evan Wolfson, Marriage Makes a Word of Difference

Ben Shapiro, The Homosexual Assault On Traditional MarriageCal Thomas, Dearly Beloved

 

Gregory Gadow, Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance: I-957 The Defense of             Marriage Initiative

Venice Buhain, Lacey Woman Shares Tale of Denial at Bedside of Her Dying PartnerMaggie Gallagher, The Message of SameSex Marriage

 

INTERCHAPTER 2

VOICE AND EMPHASIS

Diction and Repetition

Repeating words for emphasis     

Alliteration

Sentence Tools

Joining complete and incomplete thoughts: subordination 

Colons and dashes and voice

Colons

Dashes

Using double dashes       

Italics (Underlining) and Voice

Parentheses and voice

Fine-tuning Sentences                          

Sentence fragments: pros and cons         

Conciseness

Omit needless words I            

Omit needless words II

 

                                                                              

CHAPTER 3 

STRATEGIES OF ARGUMENTATION

Using Opposites

Using Contradictions and Paradoxes

Contradictions

Paradoxes

Paradox and tolerance for ambiguity      

Either/or thinking

Flip it

The wisdom of opposites

Using Comparison

Organizing comparison: block and alternate patterns

Using Refutation

Using Induction and Deduction

Induction

Deduction

Using Narration and Description

Narration

Description

Using analogy

Explaining the mind

 

Using Classification

Using Cause and Effect

Using Humor

Humorous tone

Rick Reilly, Swearing Off Swearing

Humor as Satire

Dave Barry, Taking the Manly Way Out

Using Definition

Digging for roots of words

Exploring an Essay

David Gessner, A Feeling of Wildness

Connie Schultz, Here’s a Little Tip about Gratuities

Rick Reilly, What Money Can't Buy

                                                                              

INTERCHAPTER 3

STRATEGIES OF REPETITION

Sentence Tools

Parallelism         

Anaphora          

Epistrophe 

The Power of Threes in Sentences

Susan Ager, Baby, Baby, Baby, 3 Has Its Charms

 

Using threes in sentences: rising order or not

Varying Sentence Beginnings: Three Ways

Using -ing phrases   

Misusing -ing Phrases: Dangling Modifiers 

Using -ed or -en phrases     

Using To phrases

 

CHAPTER 4

THE TOULMIN METHOD AND PROBLEMS IN REASONING

Using the Toulmin Strategy to Argue

Kinds of arguments–kinds of claims 

      Laws and policies

Reality, facts

Values, morals, taste  

Warrants 

Stating the warrant

Exploring an Essay Using the Toulmin Method

Roald Hoffman, The Tense Middle

 

Hoffman’s claim       

Hoffman’s grounds   

Hoffman’s warrant

Hoffman’s backing

 

Rebuttal of Hoffman’s claim, grounds, and warrant

Essays to Explore with the Toulmin Method                             

Caitlin Petre, The Lessons I Didn't Learn in College

Alice Waters, Eating for Credit

Dave Eggers, Serve or Fail        

Problems in Reasoning

Finding the Facts 

Implications, Assumptions, and Inferences

Implications

Assumptions

Inferences

Fallacies 

Problems of Insufficient Evidence 

Overgeneralizing   

John Gray, Wallets and Purses   

Card stacking        

Ad ignorantium 

Post hoc ergo propter hoc 

Problems Based on Irrelevant Information

Ad Baculum        

Ad hominem        

Fallacy of opposition 

 

Genetic fallacy       

Guilt by association       

Ad misericordiam 

Ad populum       

Bandwagon       

Plain folks and snob appeal 

Ad verecundiam       

Red herring       

Weak opponent

Tu quoque         

Oversimplification 

Problems of Ambiguity 

Amphibole       

Begging the question       

Equivocation 

Loaded language         

False analogy 

Problems of Faulty Reasoning 

False dilemma (either/or thinking)      

Non sequitur 

Rationalization      

Reductio ad absurdum      

 

Slippery slope 

Reading and Writing Activities      

 

INTERCHAPTER 4

STYLE AND OPPOSITES

Sentence Tools

Antithesis       

Antithesis and balanced sentences                  

        Loose and periodic sentences

Fine-tuning Sentences 

False starts      

Active and passive verbs   

 

CHAPTER 5

VISUAL ARGUMENTS      

Photographs

News photographs   

Feature Photography

       Staged images      

Documentary photographs      

Fotolog

Student Essays Exploring Photographs

 

Like a Photograph, a Painting   

Advertisements

Commercial ads             

Ads for social causes      

Student essays exploring advertisements

Cartoons     

Cartoons and creativity        

Creativity and humor

Serious cartoons   

Kathleen Parker, Happy Father's Day, Jerk   

Editorial cartoons

Student essays exploring cartoons

Film                                         

Writing about a film   

Organizing your film review  

Before you do research  

Finding and synthesizing sources

Student film reviews

                                                                             

INTERCHAPTER 5

ANALYZING STYLE

Presenting Yourself in E-Mail

 

Tools of Style 

Exploring the Style of a Passage 

Exploring the Style of an Essay or a Speech 

Rick Reilly, The Swooshification of the World

Essays for Exploration

Ellen Goodman, The Abiding Legacy of My Mother–the Listener

Dave Barry, Growing Old with Dave

Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream

 

CHAPTER 6

CRITICAL THINKING ABOUT POETRY, FICTION, AND

LITERARY NONFICTION

Reading and Writing about Poetry 

Theodore Roethke, My Papa’s Waltz

The language of poetry       

Emily Dickinson, A narrow Fellow in the Grass

Elements of poetry

Diction      

Imagery

Theodore Roethke, Root Cellar

            Figures of speech: metaphors, similes, and symbols  

Sylvia Plath, Metaphors   

 

Tone         

Speaker          

Sound patterns       

Structure        

Line breaks

Reading Notebook

William Stafford, Traveling through the Dark

Writing an Essay about a Poem 

Student Essay Exploring a Poem

Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays

Poems to Consider for Writing an Essay 

Mary Oliver, The Summer Day

Ted Kooser, Student

Marge Piercy, To Be of Use

Paula Sergi, Vocations Club

Bruce Weigl, May

James Wright, A Blessing

Lucille Clifton, homage to my hips

W. S. Merwin, Yesterday

Reading and Writing about Fiction 

Stuart Dybek, Lights

Stuart Dybek, Maroon

 

Anne Caston, Flying Out with the Wounded

Elements of fiction         

Plot and conflict       

Character

Point of view       

Setting          

Moral issues

Writing an Essay about a Story 

Stories to Consider for Writing an Essay 

Raymond Carver, Popular Mechanics

Bonnie Jo Campbell, Shotgun Wedding

Will Weaver, The Undeclared Major

Reading and Writing about Literary Nonfiction 

Richard Selzer, Brute

Writing about a Literary Nonfiction Essay

Naomi Shihab Nye, Field Trip

Annie Dillard, Living Like Weasels

 

 

CHAPTER 7

LIBRARY STRATEGIES

Research Writing Options 

 

The report        

The argument paper

Modern Research   

Start in the Library  

Preliminary reading           

Locating your research question

Strategy One: Finding Background Material 

 

General encyclopedias      

Specialized encyclopedias

The Growth Phenomenon: A Research Problem

Critical thinking in a research notebook

Keeping Notes

Strategy Two: Looking for Books

The library catalog          

Online databases for book lists

Strategy Three: Looking for Articles

Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature    

Newspaper online archives

Searching databases

To use popular sources or not

Divide your work into steps or phases

Look for the most recent sources first

 

Professional, technical, and specialty journals 

Strategy Four: Looking for Specialized Information

Government documents, statistics, reports 

Biographical sources

Book reviews  

Strategy Five: Using Electronic Sources and Microform Readers

Microform Readers

Strategy Six: Using Interviews  

 

CHAPTER 8

EVALUATING EVIDENCE

The Wikipedia Dilemma

Scott Jaschik, A Stand Against Wikipedia

T. Mills Kelly, Why I Won’t Get Hired at Middlebury

Research and the Internet

What Is a Reliable Site?  

Evaluating Web sites       

Criteria for Web sites

Who Is the Author?

Identifying authors       

Watch Out for False Authorities 

Authority       

 

Questionable Ethos

Daniel Carlat, Generic Smear Campaign

Reliable Information: On the Web and Off   

Context         

Timely data        

Documentation and credibility

      Hoaxes and frauds   

Understanding Evidence

Claim

Persuasion

Questioning evidence

primary and secondary evidence

The weight of evidence  

Magazines and journals       

What are professional journals? 

Researchers’ rule        

“Best” sources of evidence

Remaining impartial

Information without Attribution

Evaluating statistical data

Going Beyond the Information Given

Nicholas D. Kristof, Save the Darfur Puppy

 

Exploring an Article by Doing Research from It

Lori Aratani, Teens Can Multitask, But What Are Costs?

Daniel Goleman, Flame First, Think Later: New Clues to E-Mail Misbehavior

Gardiner Harris, F.D.A. Dismisses Medical Benefit From Marijuana         

CHAPTER 9

DOCUMENTATION

Using Sources

Citing information from sources

Using Direct Quotes

How to cite long quotes

Using an ellipsis mark to indicate omission of words

Using brackets to add your own words in a quote

Using “sic” to indicate errors in quotes

When it is appropriate to use direct quotes

Using signal phrases with direct quotes

Plagiarism, Summarizing and Paraphrasing

Leonard Pitts Jr., Chris Cecil, Plagiarism Gets You Fired

Common knowledge

MLA Style: InText Rules  

Using author’s name and signal phrase

Using author’s name in parentheses

 

Using sources with two or three authors

Using sources with for four or more authors

Using a committee or group author

Using authors with the same last name

Using an unknown author

Using a source quoted in another source

Using shortened titles

Using a web source with no page numbers

Using a source that is one page

Citing page numbers

Using works with numbered sections or lines     

Using publishers’ names

Using copyright date

Using content notes

Basic Work Cited Model, Book (MLA) 

Basic Work Cited Model, Periodical (MLA)  

Books: MLA Works Cited Models 

One author       

More than one book by same author  

Author of one book, coauthor of another    

Committee or group author      

Book with editor(s)  

 

Article or chapter in an edited work  

Translation       

Multi-volume work        

Reprint of older work 

Publisher imprint     

Edition      

Introduction, preface, foreword 

Bible, sacred works       

Dictionary  

Specialized encyclopedia

 

Periodicals: MLA Works Cited Models 

Weekly magazine article      

Magazine article, no author given  

Monthly magazine article     

Newspaper article  

Newspaper article, unsigned        

Editorial

Letter to the editor in magazine or newspaper

Book review               

Film review

Music review      

 

Journal article, each issue starting with page 1

Journal article, pages numbered continuously throughout year

Titles and quotes within titles  

Other Sources: MLA Works Cited Models

Handout or unpublished essay     

Lecture, speech, public address  

Film     

Video recording: television or film      

Play, performance 

Musical performance      

Musical composition      

Musical recording  

Individual selection from a recording      

Television show  

Work of art        

Poem published separately         

Poem in a collection  

Letter, personal         

Letter(s), published         

Personal interview 

Telephone interview          

Published interview  

 

A chart, diagram, map, or table      

A cartoon       

An advertisement  

Electronic Sources: MLA Works Cited Models               

Article from an online magazine        

Article from an online newspaper    

Article from an online journal  

An entire web site

Chapter or section from a web site

Article from a web site

E-Mail

Online book       

Part of an online book      

Online government publication       

CD-ROM

Work from an online database

Weblog site

Weblog entry         

APA Style: Name and Date Method of Documentation

Guidelines for References in Your Text: APA Style  

Using author’s name

Using sources with two authors

 

Using sources with three to five authors

Using sources with six or more authors

Using an unknown author

Using a committee or group with a long name

Using two authors with same last name

Using same author, same year

Using multiple references

Using a source quoted in another source

Using a long quote

References List in APA Style  

Basic Reference Form, Book (APA)       

Basic Reference Form, Periodicals (APA) 

Books: Reference List Models, APA Style

One author       

More than one book by same author  

Author of one book, coauthor of another  

Two or more authors      

Committee or group author   

Book with editor(s)       

Article or chapter in an edited work

Translation       

Multivolume work     

 

Reprint of older work         

Edition other than the first

Introduction, preface, foreword        

Dictionary  

Periodicals: Reference List Models, APA Style  

Weekly magazine article      

Magazine article, no author given  

Monthly magazine article       

Newspaper article 

Newspaper article, unsigned       

Editorial, signed and unsigned

Letter to the editor       

Book review       

Film review

Music review      

Journal article, each issue starting with page 1

Journal article, pages numbered continuously throughout year

Other Sources:Reference List Models, APA Style   

Lecture, speech, public address  

Motion picture: film, video, or DVD

Television broadcast 

Play, performance       

 

Individual selection from a recording

Work of art       

A chart, diagram, map, or table

Electronic Sources: Reference List Models, APA Style  

Internet articles based on a print source         

Article from a journal, print source

Article from an online journal, no print source

Article from a magazine   

Article from an online newspaper      

Online book    

Online government publication         

Work from an online database 

Weblog entry

 

CHAPTER 10

WRITING YOUR RESEARCH PAPER

Researchers as Writers 

Writing a Report 

A model report

Organizing informational reports

Writing an Argument Paper

Shaping your thesis      

 

Discovering order 

Working through your project

Understanding audience

Controlling your voice

Taking your time

Substantiating your data

The Formal Outline                  

Revising the preliminary outline

The Formal Outline Model  

The Abstract    

Using What You Have Learned in Earlier Chapters

Works Cited or References 

The bibliography rule

A Model Argument Paper

MLA Guidelines for Manuscript Format

APA Guidelines for Manuscript Format

Model Research Paper Using APA Style

 

A CONCISE HANDBOOK ON GRAMMAR, MECHANICS, AND USAGE

Sentences  

Punctuation  

Mechanics   

 

Glossary of Usage   

 

CREDITS

 

INDEX

 

 


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