Part 1. Reading and understanding arguments. 1. Everything is an argument -- 2. Arguments based on emotion: pathos -- 3. Arguments based on character: ethos -- 4. Arguments based on facts and reason: logos -- 5. Fallacies of argument -- 6. Rhetorical analysis -- Part 2. Writing arguments. 7. Structu
Everything's an Argument with Readings
β Scribed by Andrea A. Lunsford, John J. Ruszkiewicz, Keith Walters
- Publisher
- Bedford/St. Martin's
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 1028
- Edition
- Sixth Edition
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This best-selling combination argument text and thematically organized reader shows students how to analyze all kinds of arguments β not just essays and editorials, but clothes, smartphone apps, ads, and Web site designs β and then how to use what they learn to write their own effective arguments. Newly streamlined, its signature engaging, and jargon-free instruction emphasizes cultural currency, humor, and visual argument. Students love Everythings an Argument because it helps them understand how a world of argument already surrounds them instructors love it because it helps students construct their own personally meaningful arguments about that world. The print text is now integrated with e-Pages for Everythings an Argument, designed to take advantage of what the Web can do.
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A streamlined argument guide plus provocative thematic reader,<em>Everything's an Argument with Readings</em>helps students understand and analyze the arguments around them as well as create their own. Lucid explanations cover the classical rhetoric of the ancient Greeks through the multimodal rheto