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Asking Questions: A Rhetoric for the Intellectual Life

Asking Questions: A Rhetoric for the Intellectual Life


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A short, inviting rhetoric for freshman composition, Asking Questions is based on active inquiry and active learning and gives students practice in the writing they will do in their courses across the college curriculum. The six chapters of Asking Questions ground the freshman course in the most common academic tasks, emphasizing the fundamental importance of making and supporting worthwhile claims. Asking Questions leads students through such concerns as rhetorical setting, audience, and writing purposes and processes within a straightforward, accessible framework.

Table of Contents:
Preface to Students. A Note to Instructors. 1.Challenging Commonplaces. Intellectual Life. The Culture of Clichés. Izuzu Advertisement, Outrun Civilization. Assumptions and the University. Langston Hughes, Theme for English B. Essay Option 1A. Understanding Intellectual Life as a QEC Pattern of Thinking. QEC and Academic Thinking and Writing. From the Personal to the Public: Extending QEC to QEC:CS. QEC and College Writing. Using Detail, Pointing to Specifics. Essay 1B. Rhetorical Diagramming. Ellen Goodman, In the Male Direction. Considering Thesis Statements and the Effort to Challenge Commonplaces. A Checklist. The Essay Options: Getting Started. Additional Essay Options. Sample Student Essay, Option 1b: Scott Gallagher, Address Unknown. 2.Listening to Others: Reading and Summarizing What You Read. College Reading and Contemporary Culture. Learning to Ask Questions, Learning (Again) to Read. Using QEC:CS to Ask Questions about What You're Reading. Deborah Tannen, Intimacy and Independence. The Problem of New Vocabulary. Elliot A. Norse, from Ancient Forests of the Pacific Northwest. Alison King, Inquiry as a Tool of Critical Thinking. Using TRIAC to Make Sense of What You Read. Helena Curtis and N. Sue Barnes, from Biology. David Denby, Passion at Yale. College Reading: Observations and Advice. Skimming and Close Reading. Summarizing What You Read. Summarizing in College Classes. Reading to Summarize. Two Essay Options. Adrienne Rich, Claiming an Education. The Essay Options: Getting Started. Other Essay Options. Sample Student Essay, Option 2C: Shelley Fickes, Where Have All the “Best Friends” Gone? Barbara Ehrenreich, In Praise of “Best Friends”: The Revival of a Fine Old Institution. 3.Reading between the Lines. The Experience of Reading Literature. Reading as a Process. William Wordsworth, She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways. Images and Ideas. Lex Runciman, The Boat at Kelly's Lake. Jim Bean Advertisement, Get in Touch with Your Masculine Side. The Condensation of Meaning. How Prose Can Be Like Poetry, Too. Marjorie Sandor, The Night Gardener. Point of View. Tone of Voice. Filling in the Gaps. William Stafford, Final Exam: American Renaissance. Essay Option 3A. Literature and Life. Essay Option 3B. Reading Literature as Training for Reading Other Kinds of Writing. Interpreting Thesis-Driven Prose. Essay Option 3C. The Essay Options: Getting Started. William Stafford, Learning How to Lose. Other Essay Options. Sample Student Essay, Option 3b: Kate Lamont, Reading Koi. 4.Linking Causes and Effects. Predicting the Future. Explaining the Past. Cause and Effect as Process Analysis. Co-Relation and Causation. An Example of Co-Relation and Causation: Do Women Benefit from Study at All-Female Schools? Using QEC:CS in Linking Causes and Effects. Marilyn vos Savant, Good News for Poor Spellers. Causes, Effects, Research, and the Scientific Method. Multiple Causes, Multiple Effects. Essay Option 4A. Multiple Effects, Multiple Responses, Multiple Views. The Case Study: Constructing a Whole Narrative. Mary Pipher, from Reviving Ophelia, Amy. The Essay Options: Getting Started. Other Essay Options. Sample Student Essay Option 4C: Tanya Williams, Joe Camel and HIV Testing. 5.Analyzing and Making Arguments. Media Persuasion. Persuasion and Believability. Reading Prose Arguments: Recognizing Inductive Arguments. Essay Option 5A. Arguing from Statistical Data. Induction: Validity and Persuasiveness. Inductive Fallacies. Recognizing Deductive Arguments. Considering and Questioning Assumptions. Mona Charen, Majoring in Sex. Essay Option 5B. Considering Advocacy and Audience. Arguing from Analogy. Arguing from Authority. Essay Option 5C. John Leo, No Books, Please; We're Students. Essay Option 5D. Essay Options: Getting Started. Speaking Advocacy: Making Oral Arguments. Sample Student Essay, Option 5C: Scott Gallagher, But, I Have a Question! 6.Understanding Comparisons, Embracing Contraries. Comparisons and Science. Comparison and Metaphor. Comparison and Difference. Either-or Propositioning. Embracing Contraries. Peter Elbow, Embracing Contraries in the Teaching Process. Essay Option 6A. More on the Example of the Environmental Debate. Intellectual Maturity. Essay Option 6B. The Essay Options: Getting Started. Other Essay Options. Sample Student Essay, Option 6a: Sarah Breeze, Finding Common Ground.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780205278282
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Pearson
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Sub Title: A Rhetoric for the Intellectual Life
  • Width: 153 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0205278280
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jun 2000
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Weight: 295 gr


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