Discovering Arguments: An Introduction to Critical Thinking, Writing, and Style Plus NEW MyCompLab -- Access Card Package

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Table of Contents:
Preface     Chapter 1: Communication and Persuasion: Logos, Pathos, Ethos   Attention, Arguing, and Inquiry  What are arguments?  The process of inquiry  The paradigm shift  Communicating Clearly and Effectively   Sascha Redetsky,  Don’t Judge Me by My Tights Convincing Reasons and Evidence Brian A. Courtney,Freedom from Choice Writing Assignment: Personal Argument Essay Finding your subject: Your writing situation   Two strategies for finding topics      Freewriting    Mapping Rhetoric and Rhetorical Situation    Rhetorical situation    Kairos Writing Persuasively   The Persuasive Appeals    Logos    Recognizing logos S. I. Hayakawa, On Human Survivall Noticing Overgeneralizations  Pathos    Recognizing pathos Julia Kraus, If I Told You, Would You Want to Hear?  Humor as pathos  Ethos  Recognizing ethos Elisabeth Bletsch,  Will  Part of You Be Left Behind? Thesis Statements    Evaluating your thesis statement Engaging Your Audience: Titles, Introductions, Conclusions    Features of good titles  Title strategies  Titles to avoid  Features of good introductions  Introductory strategies  Introductions to avoid  Features of good conclusions    Concluding strategies  Conclusions to avoid Actively Reading An Essay Sarah Krumrie, No, I Heard You–I Just Don’t Think It’s Funny Margo Brines, Forgo the Major Dilemma Sharing and Evaluating Essays A Note on Defining Grammar, Mechanics, and Usage   A Critical Thinker’s Guide for Evaluating Writing     Interchapter 1: Style and Voice Diction    Monosyllabic words  Multisyllabic words  Pretentious writing Other Features of Diction    Specific or general  Concrete or abstract    Literal or figurative  Literal language  Figurative language  Avoid clichés    Precise words    Watch Out for Things Voice   Tone    Analyzing attitude toward audience  Analyzing attitude toward subject    Sentence Tools  Simple sentences  Joining complete thoughts: coordination  Using semicolons to join complete thoughts    Using semicolons with formal transition words    Using Semicolons in a Complex Series   Solving Two Common Sentence Problems    Comma splices  Run-on sentences    Chapter 2: Strategies of Argumentation Using Examples, Authorities,  and Statistics Examples and Illustrations Writing Assignment: Illustration Using Authorities Using Statistics Using Contraries   Using contradictions and paradoxes  Contradictions   Writing Assignment: Contradiction  Paradoxes  Paradox and tolerance for ambiguity Either/or thinking Writing Assignment: Paradox  The wisdom of contraries Using Comparison    Organizing comparison: block and alternate patterns  Writing Assignment: Comparison Using Refutation   Writing Assignment: Refutation Using Induction and Deduction  Induction  Deduction   Using Narration and Description    Narration  Description Using Analogy    Explaining the mind Using Classification   Writing Assignment: Classification Using Cause and Effect    Writing Assignment: Cause and Effect  Using Analogy  Explaining the Mind  Writing Assignment: Analogy  Using Humor    Humorous tone  Using Definition    Digging for roots of words  Writing Assignment: Definition Essay  Writing Assignment: Exploring an Essay Exploring an Essay   Ashley Yuill, Choose Wisely David Gessner, A Feeling of Wildness Leonard Pitts, Jr.,Rejecting Feminism Makes No Sense Dave Barry , Eat All That You Can Eat   Interchapter 2: Voice and Emphasis Diction and Repetition  Repeating words for emphasis  Alliteration Sentence Tools    Joining complete and incomplete thoughts: subordination  Colons and dashes and voice   Colons  Dashes  Using pairs of dashes  Italics (Underlining) and voice  Parentheses and voice Fine-Tuning Sentences    Sentence fragments: pros and cons  Conciseness  Omit needless words  Omit needless words   Chapter 3: THE TOULMIN METHOD AND PROBLEMS IN REASONING Using the Toulmin Method to Argue  Kinds of arguments–kinds of claims  Laws and policies  Reality, facts  Values, morals, taste Warrants  Stating the warrant Daniel May,Practicing the Toulmin Method of Arguing Alyssa Huntoon, Toulmin Analysis of an Editorial Cartoon Gregg Nelson, Why Single Out Cell Phones  Exploring an essay using the Toulmin method    Dave Eggers, Serve or Fail       Margo Brines , Exploring Dave Eggers’s “Serve or Fail” with the Toulmin Method Writing Assignment: Exploring an Essay with the Toulmin Method Kathleen Parker, Children  Last Jessica Peck Corry, Republican Moms for Marijuana:“Time to Legalize Is Now”   Mike Adams, Weak Negotiating Fathers Problems in Reasoning    Finding the facts Implications, Assumptions, and Inferences    Implications  Assumptions Fallacies   Problems of Insufficient Evidence    Overgeneralizing John Gray, Wallets and Purses  Card stacking  Ad ignorantium  Post hoc ergo propter hoc  Problems Based on Irrelevant Information    Ad baculum  Ad hominem  Fallacy of opposition  Genetic fallacy  Guilt by association  Ad misericordiam  Ad populum  Bandwagon  Plain folks and snob appeal  Ad verecundiam  Red herring  Weak opponent  Tu quoque  Oversimplification Problems of Ambiguity    Amphibole  Begging the question  Equivocation  Loaded language  False analogy Other Problems of Faulty Reasoning    False dilemma (either/or thinking)  Non sequitur  Rationalization  Reductio ad absurdum  Slippery slope   Interchapter 3: Strategies of Repetition Sentence Tools   Parallelism  Anaphora  Epistrophe The Power of Threes in Sentences  Susan Ager,Baby, Baby, Baby, 3 Has Its Charms  Using threes in sentences: rising order or not  Varying sentence beginnings: three ways    Using -ing phrases  Misusing -ing Phrases: Misplaced Modifiers  Using -ed or -en phrases  Using To phrases   Chapter 4: ROGERIAN ARGUMENT Problems with the Argument Culture       Rogerian Argument    Common Ground    Advantages and Disadvantages of Rogerian Argument Applying Rogerian Argument Richard Selzer, Brute Writing Assignment: Personal Essay Using Rogerian Argument Student Model Paper       Critical Reading Strategies    Outlining and Summarizing Writing Assignment: Using Rogerian Argument to Analyze Essays Gary Steiner, Animal, Vegetable, Miserable    Student Model Paper Readings for Rogerian Argument Courtney E. Martin,  The Undocumented American Dream John Hawkins,  5 Reasons Illegal Immigrants Shouldn’t Be Given American Citizenship Benjamin Could,  Cognitive Enhancement on Campus: Taking Competition Seriously Mitch Albom, The Real Tragedy of a Notre Dame Football Recruit’s Spring Break Death    Robert Voas, There’s No Benefit to Lowering the Drinking Age   John J. Miller, The Case Against 21      Maggie Gallagher, The Message of Same-Sex Marriage  Scott Seider and Howard Gardner, The Fragmented Generation    Interchapter 4: Style and CONTRARIES Sentence Tools    Antithesis  Antithesis and balanced sentences  Loose and periodic sentences Fine-Tuning Sentences    False starts  Active and passive verbs   Chapter 5: RHETORICAL ANALYSIS What Is a Rhetorical Analysis? Why Do a Rhetorical Analysis?  Guidelines for Exploring an Essay for a Rhetorical Analysis Writing Assignment: A Rhetorical Analysis Dennis Prager , Is America Still Making Men Student Model Paper Readings for Rhetorical Analysis Charles M. Blow,  Welcome to the Club Mitch Albom,  Don’t Shoot Holes in Gun Control Bills Eve Ensler, The Power and Mystery of Naming Things Anna Quindlen, Whoever We Are, Loss Finds Us and Defines Us Leonard Pitts, Jr., Sept. 12, 2001: We’ll Go Forward from This Moment  A Call for Unity: Letter from Eight White Clergymen  Martin Luther King, Jr.,  Letter from a Birmingham Jail   Interchapter 5: Exploring Style Presenting Yourself in E-Mail   Tools of Style   Guidelines for Writing an Essay to Explore Style Exploring the Style of a Passage   Writing Assignment: Exploring the Style of an Essay or a Speech   Rick Reilly, The Swooshification of the World  Student Model Paper Essays for Exploration   Anna Quindlen, Commencement Speech at Mount Holyoke College Martin Luther King Jr.,I Have a Dream   Chapter 6: Visual Arguments  News photographs  Feature photography  Staged images  Documentary photographs Writing Assignment: Photographs  essays exploring photographs   Like a photograph, a painting   Advertisements   Special Considerations for Exploring Ads  Student essays exploring advertisements   Writing Assignment: Advertisements Cartoons  Cartoons and creativity  Creativity and humor  Serious cartoons  Editorial cartoons Special Considerations for Exploring Cartoons Writing Assignment: Cartoons  Student essays exploring cartoons Film    Writing about a film Writing Assignment: Film Review    Guidelines for Writing a Film Review  Before you do research  Finding and synthesizing sources Student Film Review     Chapter 7: Critical Thinking about Poetryand Fiction Reading and Writing about Poetry   Theodore Roethke,My Papa’s Waltz  The language of poetry Emily Dickinson,A Narrow Fellow in the Grass  Elements of poetry  Diction  Imagery Theodore Roethke,Cellar  Figures of speech: metaphors, similes, and symbols Sylvia Plath, Metaphors  Tone  Speaker  Sound patterns  Structure  Line breaks Reading Notebook    William Stafford,Traveling through the Dark  Writing Assignment: An Essay about a Poem  Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays  Student essay exploring a poem   Poems to Consider for Writing an Essay    Mary Oliver,The Summer Day  Ted Kooser,Splitting an Order  Kim Noriega , Heaven, 1963  Paula Sergi, Vocations Club  Jim Daniels, Work Boots: Still Life  Bruce Weigl, May  Thomas Lux,Upon Seeing the Ultrasound Photo of an Unborn Child   Anne Sexton, Red Roses     Langston Hughes, Mother to Son    Naomi Shihab Nye, Famous Reading and Writing about Fiction    Stuart Dybek, Lights  Stuart Dybek, Maroon  Anne Caston, Flying Out with the Wounded  Elements of fiction  Plot and conflict  Character  Point of view  Setting  Moral issues Writing Assignment: An Essay about a Story    Stories to Consider for Writing an Essay    Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour    Raymond Carver, Popular Mechanics   Bonnie Jo Campbell, Shotgun Wedding    Stuart Dybek, Pet Milk Chapter 8: Research Strategies Research Writing Options    The report  The argument paper It May Feel Like a Mountain of Information Strategy One: Using Subject-Specific Encyclopedias  Preliminary reading and your research question Strategy Two: Looking for Books      The library catalog  Critical thinking in a research notebook  Taking notes Strategy Three: Looking for Articles    Using databases    Differences between magazines and journals   An advantage of journals   Newspaper articles and online archives  Divide your work into steps or phases  Look for the most recent sources first  Professional, technical, and specialty journals Strategy Four: Government Documents and Statistics  Biographical sources  Book reviews> Strategy Five: Doing Some Field Research   Guidelines for interviews Writing Assignment: Research Proposal     Example of research proposal   Chapter 9: Evaluating Evidence Scholarship and the Wikipedia Dilemma   Scott Jaschik, A Stand Against Wikipedia T. Mills Kelly, Why I Won’t Get Hired at Middlebury Research and the Internet   What Is a Reliable Site?  Criteria for Web sites Who Is the Author?  Identifying authors  Watch out for false and impartial authorities >Reliable Information: On the Web and Off    Context  Timely data  Documentation and credibility  Hoaxes and frauds Understanding Evidence in Research Writing  Claim  Persuasive Appeals  Questioning evidence  Primary and secondary evidence  The weight of evidence  Remaining impartial  Information without attribution  Evaluating statistical data Writing Assignment: Annotated Bibliography    Example of annotated bibliography Going Beyond the Information Given   Nicholas D. Kristof, Save the Darfur Puppy Writing Assignment: Exploring an Article by Doing Research from It   Lori Aratani, Teens Can Multitask, But What Are Costs? Rob Stein, Premarital Abstinence Pledges Ineffective, Study Finds > Gardiner Harris, Researchers Find Study of Medical Marijuana Discouraged   Chapter 10: Writing Your Reseach paper Researchers as Writers      Working through your project    Discovering order    Shaping your thesis    Substantiating your data    Understanding your audience    Controlling your voice    Using tools of style    Using persuasive appeals    Taking your time Using Sources: In-Text Citation   Using author’s name within a sentence  Using author’s name in parentheses  Using signal phrases with direct quotes  Using direct quotes for words, phrases, and sentences  How to use long quotes  Vary the way you use direct quotes  Using blended quotes within your own sentences  Commas and periods go inside quotation marks  Using colons and semicolons with quotation marks  Using single quotation marks  Using quotation marks around words used in a special sense  Using an ellipsis mark to indicate omission of words  Using brackets to add your own words in a quote  Using “sic” to indicate errors in quotes  When it is appropriate to use direct quotes  Common knowledge   Plagiarism, Summarizing, and Paraphrasing   Writing a Report    A model report    Organizing reports The Formal Outline    The preliminary outline  The formal outline model   Apply What You Have Learned in Earlier Chapters   >Works Cited or References    The bibliography rule A Model Argument Paper     Chapter 11: DOCUMENTATION: MLA AND APA   Guidelines for References in Your Text: MLA Style Directory To MLA Works Cited Models Book: MLA Basic Works Cited Model Books: MLA Works Cited Models Periodical: MLA Basic Works Cited Model Periodicals: MLA Works Cited Models Online Sources: MLA Works Cited Models    Other Sources: MLA Works Cited Models  MLA Guidelines for Manuscript Format      APA Style: Name and Date Method of Documentation Guidelines for References in Your Text: APA Style  References List in APA Style Directory to APA Works Cited Models Book: APA Basic Reference Form Books: APA Reference List Models