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Good Reasons - Lester Faigley, Jack Selzer

Good Reasons

Researching and Writing Effective Arguments
Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2017 | 7th edition
Pearson (Verlag)
978-0-13-439286-8 (ISBN)
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For courses in Argument.




A practical, visually engaging introduction to argument supported by provocative readings on contemporary issues



Nothing you learn in college will prove to be more important than the ability to create an effective argument. That’s the philosophy embodied in Good Reasons: Researching and Writing Effective Arguments, 7th Edition, an argument rhetoric/reader which avoids complicated schemes and terminology in favor of providing readers with the practical ways of finding "good reasons" to argue for the positions they take. The text uses lively, nontechnical language, an attractive visual design, numerous examples, and fresh, timely readings to engage readers’ interest. The revised 7th Edition includes new readings, multimedia coverage, and projects.

Lester Faigley holds the Robert Adger Law and Thos. H. Law Professorship in Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. He was the founding director of the Division (now Department) of Rhetoric and Writing at Texas in 1993, and he later served as Director of the University Writing Center. He was the 1996 Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Faigley has published over 30 books and editions, including Fragments of Rationality (Pittsburgh, 1992), which received the MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize. Jack Selzer has collaborated with colleagues at Penn State and elsewhere in all kinds of ways. With his long-time friend Lester Faigley, he has written two Pearson books, Good Reasons and Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments, now in their 7th Editions, and he also has edited a number of versions of Conversations: Readings for Writing, currently in its 8th Edition (now edited by Dominic Delli Carpini). A Fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America, once a president of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, and the creator of Penn State’s innovative Paterno Fellows Program, he has published or edited a number scholarly articles and books, including Rhetorical Bodies (with Sharon Crowley), Kenneth Burke in the 1930s (with Ann George), and Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village. He enjoys teaching a first-year seminar on the rhetoric of the civil rights movement, and happens to be a charter member of the longest continuously running fantasy sports league on the face of the earth.

Brief Contents I. Reading and Discovering Arguments

Making an Effective Argument
Reading Arguments
Finding Arguments
Drafting Arguments
Revising and Editing Arguments

II. Analyzing Arguments

Analyzing Written Arguments
Analyzing Visual and Multimedia Arguments

III. Writing Arguments

Definition Arguments
Causal Arguments
Evaluation Arguments
Narrative Arguments
Rebuttal Arguments
Proposal Arguments

IV. Designing and Presenting Arguments

Designing Multimedia Arguments
Presenting Arguments

V. Researching Arguments

Planning Research
Finding Sources
Evaluating and Recording Sources
Writing the Research Project
Documenting Sources in MLA Style
Documenting Sources in APA Style

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 188 x 231 mm
Gewicht 386 g
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-13-439286-8 / 0134392868
ISBN-13 978-0-13-439286-8 / 9780134392868
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