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NEW Controversies and reading selections for chapter 2 “Arguments and Controversies” to engage students logically, emotionally, and ethically. 

            ~Students are invited to analyze and evaluate essays concerning National Service, Women in Combat, College or Pro Sports, Donating Organs, and Stem Cell Research, and three case studies with multiple readings on Cheating for Success, Same Sex Marriage, and Affirmative Action are provided.  New issues and readings appeal to students and teachers more than some of the issues  in the first edition such as gambling and creationism.  The issue of Cheating for Success is new for an argument text yet extremely relevant for students.  Many people believe cheating and lying are justifiable means toward getting good grades and good jobs.  This issue directly reinforces our book’s emphasis on ethos or credibility of character. 

NEW Exploration of the controversy surrounding the use of stem cells in research. 

            ~Chapter 10 includes two new model research papers: an informational report “Healing Hope: The Promises of Stem Cell Therapy” and an argument paper “Trying to Save Lives: Are Embryonic Stem Cells Miracles or Murder?”

NEW Chapter on reading and writing about poems, stories, and literary nonfiction that is more comprehensive and engaging than similar chapters in other argument textbooks. 

            ~Several new poems have been chosen, and a new student essay serves as a model for analyzing and evaluating a literary text. 

NEW Emphasis on helping students document their sources. 

            Works Cited information provided after the reading selections invite students to analyze and evaluate.  With clear, explicit models of Works Cited to follow, students can create Works Cited pages more easily for their own research papers.

NEW Labels many activities “Revision” in the interchapters on style, prompting students to apply tools of style immediately to drafts of their writing.  An active-discovery method of instruction—Provides guidance that ensures variety and interest for students and instructors.

Unique “interchapters” on style and voice—In brief sections between major chapters.

~Enables students to learn about language in positive ways, and how to solve common problems with diction, punctuation, and sentences—so that they can excel at what they say, as well as how well they say it.

A full section devoted to research writing—Based on guidelines of both MLA and APA styles.

~Offers students comprehensive chapters on library use (including virtual libraries), evaluation of evidence—especially Internet sources, documentation, and detailed guidelines for writing reports and persuasive research papers.

A complete chapter on “Thinking with Contraries”—Stimulates thoughtful writing about contradictions and paradoxes, and analyzing contraries in readings.

~Teaches students to use creative thinking skills (such as metaphor, simile, analogy) to complement critical thinking skills (such as analysis, argumentation, and evaluation).

Readings by a wide variety of professional writers—e.g., Ellen Goodman, Richard Selzer, Thomas Sowell, Deborah Tannen, and Martin Luther King Jr.

~Provides students with a large number of interesting articles, poems, essays, and stories on assorted topics. Discussion questions and writing topics follow each section in Chapter 2.

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

~Helps students avoid errors, edit their own work, and evaluate the work of other writers.

New To This Edition

NEW Controversies and reading selections for chapter 2 “Arguments and Controversies” to engage students logically, emotionally, and ethically.  Students are invited to analyze and evaluate essays concerning National Service, Women in Combat, College or Pro Sports, Donating Organs, and Stem Cell Research, and three case studies with multiple readings on Cheating for Success, Same Sex Marriage, and Affirmative Action are provided.  New issues and readings appeal to students and teachers more than some of the issues  in the first edition such as gambling and creationism.  The issue of Cheating for Success is new for an argument text yet extremely relevant for students.  Many people believe cheating and lying are justifiable means toward getting good grades and good jobs.  This issue directly reinforces our book’s emphasis on ethos or credibility of character. 

NEW Exploration of the controversy surrounding the use of stem cells in research.  Chapter 10 includes two new model research papers: an informational report “Healing Hope: The Promises of Stem Cell Therapy” and an argument paper “Trying to Save Lives: Are Embryonic Stem Cells Miracles or Murder?”

NEW Chapter on reading and writing about poems, stories, and literary nonfiction that is more comprehensive and engaging than similar chapters in other argument textbooks.  Several new poems have been chosen, and a new student essay serves as a model for analyzing and evaluating a literary text. 

NEW Emphasis on helping students document their sources.  Works Cited information provided after the reading selections invite students to analyze and evaluate.  With clear, explicit models of Works Cited to follow, students can create Works Cited pages more easily for their own research papers.

NEW Labels many activities “Revision” in the interchapters on style, prompting students to apply tools of style immediately to drafts of their writing. 

Table of Contents

  1. Communication and Persuasion: Logos, Pathos, Ethos.

Interchapter 1: Style and Voice.

  2. Arguments and Controversies.

Interchapter 2: Voice and Emphasis.

  3. Strategies of Argumentation.

Interchapter 3: Strategies of Repetition.

  4. Visual Arguments.

Interchapter 4: Style and Contraries.

  5. Problems in Reasoning.

Interchapter 5: Analyzing and Evaluating Style.

  6. Critical Thinking about Poetry, Fiction, and Literary Nonfiction.

  7. Library Strategies.

  8. Evaluating Evidence.

  9. Documentation.

10. Writing Your Research Paper.

Concise Handbook on Grammar, Mechanics, and Usage.

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Argument  (Composition)
First-Year Composition - Rhetoric  (Composition)

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