Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments: Reading, Designing, and Writing Effective Arguments

Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments: Reading, Designing, and Writing Effective Arguments
ISBN-10
0321364961
ISBN-13
9780321364968
Series
Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments
Category
English language
Pages
708
Language
English
Published
2006-02
Publisher
Longman Publishing Group
Authors
Lester Faigley, Jack Selzer

Description

This popular rhetoric/reader combines a brief, accessible introduction to argument with an anthology of provocative readings on contemporary issues. By stressing the rhetorical situation and the audience, this rhetoric avoids complicated schemes and terminology in favor of providing students with the practical means to find good reasons for the positions they want to advocate to their audiences. Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments helps students write and understand various types of arguments, including visual as well as verbal arguments. Supporting the authors' instruction are numerous readings by professional and student writers and over 50 photographs. Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments is distinctive in providing the most thorough coverage of rhetorical analysis and visual analysis. It has a new emphasis on visual argument throughout that responds to the need for greater visual literacy in a media-saturated culture. Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments is also distinctive in beginning with why people write arguments. current issues such as privacy, globalization, science and ethics, the media, and the environment. Distinctive in its emphasis on visual rhetoric, the text includes a thorough discussion of how good document design can support good reasons.

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