Author : Carolyn Channell
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 13 : 9781260298826
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (988 download)
Book Synopsis Looseleaf for Aims of Argument: A Text and Reader MLA Update 2016 by : Carolyn Channell
Download or read book Looseleaf for Aims of Argument: A Text and Reader MLA Update 2016 written by Carolyn Channell and published by McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aims of Argument, a comprehensive text for teaching argument, recognizes that people argue with a range of purposes in mind: to inquire, to convince, to persuade, and to negotiate. It offers a clear, logical learning sequence rather than merely a collection of assignments: inquiry is the search for truth, what we call an earned opinion, which then becomes the basis of efforts to convince others to accept our earned opinions. Case-making, the essence of convincing, is then carried over into learning how to persuade, which, requires explicit attention to appeals to character, emotion, and style. Finally, the previous three aims all play roles in negotiation, which amounts to finding and defending positions capable of appealing to all sides in a dispute or controversy.