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"Flexible, easy to use, just enough detail--and the number-one best selling rhetoric. The Norton Field Guide to Writing's flexibility and ease of use have made it the leading rhetoric text on the market--and a perfect choice for committees representing varying teaching styles. With just enough detail -- and color-coded links that send the students to more detail if they need -- this is the rhetoric that tells students what they need to know but resists...
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The Aims of Argument, a comprehensive text for teaching argument, recognizes that people argue with a range of purposes in mind: to inquire, to convince, to persuade, and to negotiate. It offers a clear, logical learning sequence rather than merely a collection of assignments: inquiry is the search for truth, what we call an earned opinion, which then becomes the basis of efforts to convince others to accept our earned opinions. Case-making, the essence...
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Argument is all around us-in school hallways and on social media, from capitol buildings to television newsrooms. With lively, real-world examples on topics that matter, Everything's an Argument helps you listen-really listen-to the arguments that affect you and provides the tools to respond, challenge, and explore your own.
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"This book demystifies academic writing and shows how to engage with the views of others. Extensively revised in response to feedback from our community of adopters, this edition of They Say / I Say is an even more practical companion for students, featuring a new chapter on Researching Conversations, new exercises, expanded support for reading, and an expanded chapter on Revising. By focusing on the rhetorical moves found in all disciplines, They...
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This best-selling combination rhetoric and thematically organized reader shows students how to analyze all kinds of arguments -- not just essays and editorials, but clothes, cars, ads, and Web site designs -- and then how to use what they learn to write their own effective arguments. With engaging, informal, and jargon-free instruction that emphasizes cultural currency, humor, and visual argument, "Everything's an Argument "is student-centered and...
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"Students like little books and they need ones they can afford. They need to read, write, and do research--and to listen with open minds and engage respectfully with new ideas and multiple perspectives. Let's Talk with Readings covers all that, and its anthology of 31 readings, combined with the selections on the LetsTalkLibrary, will spark conversations about issues students will want to read about, think about, talk about, and write about."--