Author : John Mauk
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780495899488
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (994 download)
Book Synopsis Inventing Arguments (with 2009 MLA Update Card) by : John Mauk
Download or read book Inventing Arguments (with 2009 MLA Update Card) written by John Mauk and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized around common rhetorical situations that occur all around us, INVENTING ARGUMENTS, Fourth Edition, shows students that argument is a living process rather than a form to be modeled. The text's prominent focus on invention teaches students to recognize the rhetorical elements of any argumentative situation and apply the tools of argument effectively in their own writing. Students are introduced to the basic layers of argument in early chapters, with material arranged into increasingly sophisticated topics beginning with the most obvious or explicit layers (claims) and moving to more implied or "hidden" layers (values, beliefs, ideology). By the time they finish Chapter 4, your students will have a thorough understanding of argument--which they can then apply to the invention projects in chapters 6-11.