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ContentsAlternate Table of Contents? 00Preface? 000 Part 1 Engaging Perspective on Argument?? 0A Definition of Argument? 0Recognizing Traditional and Consensual Argument? 0Recognizing Visual Argument? 0Under What Conditions Does Argument Work Best?? 00Under What Conditions Does Argument Fail?? 00Distinguishing Between Ethical and Unethical Argument? 00Recognizing Argument in the 21st Century? 00Engaging with Issues? 00How Should You Engage with Issues?? 00Review Questions 00Exercises and Activities? 00Essays for AnalysisFelix Carroll / No Escape from 'Helicopter Parents'? 00Abby Ellin / The Laptop Ate My Attention Span? 00Prisna Virasin / The Barbie Controversy? 00Image for AnalysisImage 1: Waterfront Living? 00 2 THE RHETORICAL SITUATION: UNDERSTANDING AUDIENCE AND CONTEXT? 00Analyze the Rhetorical Situation When You Read an Argument? 00Analyze the Rhetorical Situation When You View a Visual Argument? 00Analyze the Rhetorical Situation When You Encounter an Argument Online? 00Use the Rhetorical Situation When You Write an Argument? 00Conducting an Audience Analysis? 00Review Questions? 00Exercises and Activities? 00Essays for AnalysisChris Piper / "A" Is for "Absent"? 00Will Harrel / "A Defense of Grade Deflation"? 00The Library of Congress / The Civil Rights Era? 00Images for AnalysisImage 1: Rosa Parks Rides in the Front of the Bus? 00Image 2: Auschwitz Victims of Medical Experiments? 00 3 READING, THINKING, AND WRITING ABOUT ISSUES? 00Getting Started on a Writing Assignment? 00Read to Develop Arguments for Your Paper? 00Take Notes and Avoid Plagiarism? 00Write Your Paper, Read It, Think about It, and Revise It? 00Practice Your Process by Writing These Papers? 00Submit Your Paper for Peer Review? 00Expressing Multiple Perspectives through Visual Argument? 00Review Questions? 000Exercises and Activities? 000Essays for AnalysisScientific American / As Spy Drones Come to the US, We Must Protect Our Privacy? 00Gina Kolata / PSST! Ask for Donor 1913? 000Randy Cohen / When Texting Is Wrong? 000Prisna Virasin / The Controvery behind Barbie? 000Congressional Research Service / Flag Protection: A Brief History of ? Recent Supreme Court Decisions? 000Images for Analysis: Walling Off Your Enemies: The Long ViewImage 1: The Chinese Perspective? 000Image 2: The German Perspective? 000Image 3: The Israeli Perspective? 000Image 4: The Iraqi Perspective? 000 Part 2 Understanding the Nature of Argument ? 113 4 THE ESSENTIAL PARTS OF AN ARGUMENT: THE TOULMIN MODEL? 000The Outcomes of Argument: Probability versus Certainty? 000The Parts of an Argument according to the Toulmin Model? 000Value of the Toulmin Model for Reading, Writing, and Viewing Argument? 000Review Questions? 000Exercises and Activities? 000Essays for AnalysisFrank DeFord / Bust the Amateur Myth? 000Mohamed T. Diaby Jr. / Toulmin Analysis of the "Price of Oranges" Cartoon? 000Richard D. Rieke and Malcolm O. Sillars / American Value Systems? 000Images for AnalysisImage 1: Sense of Community, Advertisement? 000Image 2: "The Price of Oranges" Claim Types and the Claim Questions for Reading, Viewing, and Writing Argument? 000Review Questions? 000Exercises and Activities? 000Essays for AnalysisStephen J. Handel / 2-Year Students Have Long Had 4-Year Dreams? 000Mark Levinson / Mismeasuring Poverty? 000Jeffrey Young / High Tech Cheating Abounds, and Professors are Partly to Blame? 000A. K. Simon / Reality TV: More than Just a Guilty Pleasure? 000Rebecca Cho / Is Bottled Water a Moral Issue?? 000Barry Schwartz / When It's All Too Much? 172Images for AnalysisImage 1: War Casualties? 000Image 2: U.S. Border Patrol? 000Image 3: The Rhone Glacier? 000Image 4: Go Paperless? 000Image 5: Corn 000Types of Logical Proof: Logos 000Proof That Builds Credibility: Ethos 000Types of Emotional Proof: Pathos 000Logos, Ethos, and Pathos Communicated through Language and Style 000Value of the Proofs for Reading, Viewing, and Writing Argument 000Review Questions? 000Exercises and Activities? 000Essays for AnalysisCareen Shannon / Stop Calling People "Aliens"? 208Government Accountability Office / "Poverty in America: Consequences for Individuals and the Economy"? 212Thomas Jefferson / The Declaration of Independence? 000Images for AnalysisImage 1: Mothers Against Drunk Driving? 000Image 2: Poor Tenements in Holyoke, Massachusetts? 000Image 3: Little Girl on Bed in Rundown Bedroom? 000 7 THE FALLACIES AND ETHICAL ARGUMENT? 000Fallacies in Logic? 000Fallacies That Affect Character or Ethos? 000Emotional Fallacies? 000Ethics and Morality in Argument? 000Review Questions? 000Exercises and Activities? 000Essays for AnalysisHannah Sternberg / Conservative Feminism Is Not an Oxymoron? 000Kelly Dickerson / Minor Problems?? 238Images for AnalysisImage 1: A Shower Gels Ad? 000Image 2: 1930s Drunk Driving Poster? 000Image 3: An Ad for a Blog? 000Essay with Images for AnalysisGettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863 / The Gettysburg Address? 000Image 1: President Lincoln Among the Crowd at Gettysburg? 000Image 2: The Soldier's National Monument that Stands in the Center of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania? 000 8 VISUAL ARGUMENT? 000Recognizing Visual Argument 000Why Visual Argument Is Convincing: Eight Special Features 000Using Argument Theory to Critique Visual Argument 000Bias in Visual Argument 000Sample Analysis of a Visual Argument 000Add Visual Argument to Support Written Argument 000Create Visual Arguments That Stand Alone 000Review Questions? 000Exercises and Activities? 000Images for AnalysisImage 1: West Bank Barrier? 000Image 2: Immigrant Rights? 000Image 3: Coming Home to a Destroyed Neighborhood? 000Image 4: LeBron James? 000Image 5: At Home Outdoors? 000Image 1: Adam and God? 000Image 2: Play Ball? 000Image 3: Robot with a Grappler? 000Visual Argument Created by StudentsStudent Visual Argument 1: Untitled? 000Student Visual Argument 2: Never Again? 000? Analytical Essay on Never Again? 000 9 ROGERIAN ARGUMENT AND COMMON GROUND 000Achieving Common Ground in Rogerian Argument? 000Rogerian Argument as Strategy? 000Writing Rogerian Argument? 000Rogerian Argument in Academic Writing? 000Review Questions? 000Exercises and Activities? 000Essays for AnalysisMike Rose / Heal the Academic-Vocational Schism? 000Angela A. Boatwright / Human Cloning: Is It a Viable Option?? 000Eric Hartman / Let Those Who Ride Decide!? 000Elizabeth Nabhan / Dear Boss? 000Images for AnalysisImage 1: Hands across the World? 000Image 2: Bridging the Gap? 000Image 3: Bipartisanship ? 000Reading for the Argument Analysis Paper? 000Writing the Argument Analysis Paper? 000Rhetorical Situation for "A Call to Unity: A Letter from Eight White Clergymen" and "Letter from Birmingham Jail"? 000Focus Topics to Help You Analyze the Letters? 000Essays for AnalysisWhite Clergymen / A Call for Unity: A Letter from Eight White Clergymen? 000Martin Luther King Jr. / Letter from Birmingham Jail? 000Review Questions? 000Exercises and Activities? 000 Part III Writing a Researched Argument? 000 11 THE RESEARCH PAPER: PLANNING, RESEARCH, AND INVENTION? 000Understanding the Assignment and Getting Started? 000Writing a Claim and Clarifying Your Purpose? 000Some Preliminary Questions to Help You Narrow and Develop Your Claim? 000Developing a Research Plan? 000Understanding the Audience? 000Analyzing Your Class as Your Audience? 000Constructing an Unfamiliar Audience? 000Using Information about Your Audience? 000Get Organized for Research? 000Locating Sources for Research? 000Evaluating Sources? 000Creating a Bibliography? 000Taking and Organizing Your Notes? 000Two Invention Strategies to Help You Think Creatively about Your Research and Expand Your Own Ideas? 000Review Questions? 000Exercises and Activities? 000Essays for AnalysisAngela Boatwright / Human Cloning: An Annotated Bibliography? 000Image for AnalysisImage 1: What's Wrong with Cloning Humans?? 000 12 THE RESEARCH PAPER: USING SOURCES, WRITING, AND REVISING? 000Matching Patterns and Support to Claims 000Outlining Your Paper and Cross-Reference Your Notes 000Incorporating Research into Your First Draft 000Making Revisions and Preparing the Final Copy 000Present Your Paper Orally to the Class RESEARCHED POSITION PAPER, APA STYLE? 000 Part IV Further Applications: Argument and Literature? 000 13 ARGUMENT AND LITERATURE? 000Finding and Analyzing Arguments in Literature 000Writing Arguments about Literature 000Review Questions? 000Exercises and Activities? 000Literature for Analysis? 000Poem / Taylor Mali / Totally Like Whatever, You Know?? 000Poem / Robert Frost / Mending Wall? 000Story / Ursula K. Le Guin / The Ones Who 000* TRACE: The Rhetorical Situation 000* The Process 000* The Toulmin Model 000* Types of Claims 000* Rogerian Argument 000* Types of Proof and Tests of Validity 000* Logical Fallacies 000 Part V The Reader? 000 Introduction to "The Reader": Reading and Writing About Issue Areas? 000Purpose of "The Reader"? 000How to Use "The Reader"? 000Section 1 Families and Personal Relationships 000The Issues 000Exploring Online Yoest Pederson / A Family of a Different Feather? 000Lorraine Ali / The Curious Lives of Surrogates? 000Margaret Rock / Till Tech Do Us Part 000B. Unmasking the Neurobiology of Love? 000Christine Hassler / Digital Dating: Desperation or Necessity?? 000Anita Jain / Is Arranged Marriage Really Any Worse Than Craigslist?? 000John Yemma / Millennial Generation: What's Love Got to Do With It?? 000Questions to Help You Think and Write About Families and ? ? Personal Relationships? 000Section 2 Modern Technology 000The Issues 000Exploring Online Argument 000The Rhetorical Situation 000A. HOW Google Making Us Stupid?? 000Evgeny Morozov / Are Smart Gadgets Making Us Dumb?Scott Steinberg / How Video Games Can Make You Smarter Reading Images: Ways of Reading? 000Matthew Kirschenbaum / How Reading is Being Reimagined? HUMAN?? 000Ray Kurzweil / Our Bodies, Our Technologies? 000Peggy Orenstein / Your Gamete, Myself? 000Kathleen Craig / Making a Living in Second Life? 000Questions to Help You Think and Write About Modern Technology? 000Section 3 Education and Learning 000The Issues 000Exploring Online Argument 000The Rhetorical Situation 000A. WHAT ARE THE KEY PROBLEMS CONFRONTING HIGHER EDUCATION? 000Tressie MacMillan Cottom, "Redefining the 'Typical' College Student" (new)Scott Jaschik / Getting Out of Grading? 000Editorial Board, Daily Californian / Making College Affordable 000Kevin Carey / College Consumerism Run Amok 000B. WHAT ROLE SHOULD TECHNOLOGY PLAY IN EDUCATION? 000Zach Miners / Twitter Goes to College? 000Sarah Perez / Social Network Profile Costs Woman ? College Degree? 000Mira Jacob / The Great Baby Einstein Scam? 000Kerry Soper / RateMyProfessorsAppearance.com? 000Questions to Help You Think and Write About ? Education and School? 000Section 4 Race, Culture, and Identity 000The Issues 000Exploring AMERICAN IDENTITY? 000Emma Daly / DNA Test Gives Students Ethnic Shocks? 000READING IMAGES: Racial Role Reversal in William ? Shakespeare's Othello? 000Martin Luther King Jr. / I Have a Dream? 000K. A. Dilday / Go Back to AFFILIATION? 000Mychal Denzel Smith / To Be Young and Black in America 000Dorinne K. Kondo / On Being a Conceptual Anomaly? 000Katie Halper / Digging for Roots at Secular Camp? 000Carlos Lozada / What Makes Me Hispanic ? 000Questions to Help You Think and Write About Race, ? Culture, and Identity? 000Section 5 The Environment and Sustainability 000The Issues 000Exploring Online Argument 000The Rhetorical Situation 000A. HOW CAN WE Unconventional Farmers; Let Them Eat Meat? 000James McWilliams / The Green Monster 000Josh Viertel, The Soul of Slow Food 000Martha Rosenberg, "Is ECONOMY VERSUS ENVIRONMENT DEBATE? 000Ramit Plushnick-Masti / Descendants of Slaves in East Texas Hold Out Against Luminant's Coal Mining Plans? 000Reading Images: Coal Mining and the Environment? 000Stuart Price / Carving Up the Congo? 000Reading Images: The Rain Forest? 000Brian Wingfield / For Job Market, Green Means Growth? 000Bill Carter / The Hidden Costs of Going Green 000Reading Images: "Near-Zero Energy Home" Advertisement? 000Questions to Help You Think and Write About Issues of the Environment and Sustainability? 000Section 6 Immigration 000The Issues 000Exploring Online Argument 000The Rhetorical Situation 000A. HOW SHOULD Exodus? 000Peter Wilby / The Right to Sell Labor? 000Angela Maria Kelley / The Changing Face of Immigration in America 000Jake and Calvin Ratana / Dispelling the Myth of the Model Minority 000B. DO GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS WHEN DEFINING NATIONAL BORDERS? 000Jonah Goldberg / To Wall or Not to Wall? 000David Aaronovitch / It's Not Immigrations We Fear, It's Change? 000Reading Images: What Is American?? 000Miguel Bustillo / Town Against the Wall? 000Section 7 War and Peace 000The Issues 000Exploring Online Argument 000The Rhetorical Situation 000A. IS WAR INEVITABLE? HOW DOES WAR 000Reading Images: War Memorials and Martial Character? 000Margaret Mead / Warfare: An Invention-Not a Biological Necessity 000Reading Images: Child WAR? 000Noah Charles Pierce / Iraq War Poems? 000Frank Deford / Sweetness and Light? 000Haim Watzman / When You Have to Shoot First? 000Credits 000Subject Index 000Author-Title Index 000
