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PART ONE, Resources for Reading and Writing Arguments
Chapter One, Understanding Argument
What Is Argument?
What Is Rhetoric?
An Example of Argument
Discussion of “You Have a Right…”
Four Criteria of Mature Reasoning
What Are the Aims of Argument?
Where are the Aims of Argument Used?
A Good Tool for Understanding and Writing Arguments: The Writer’s Notebook
Why Keep a Notebook?
Notebook Options
Keeping a Print Notebook
Keeping an Electronic Notebook
Ways of Using a Notebook
Chapter Two, Reading An Argument
The First Encounter: Seeing the Whole Text in Context
The Second Encounter: Reading and Analyzing the Text
Wrestling With Difficult Passages
Using Paraphrase to Aid Comprehension
Analyzing the Reasoning of an Argument
The Third Encounter: Responding Critically to an Argument
Chapter Three, Analyzing Arguments: A Simplified Toulmin Method
A Preliminary Critical Reading
A Step-by-Step Demonstration of the Toulmin Method
Find the Exceptions
Analyzing the Reasons
List the Reasons
Examine the Reasons
Analyzing Evidence
Noting Refutations
Summarizing Your Analysis
A Final Note about Logical Analysis
Chapter Four, Reading and Writing about Visual Arguments Understanding Visual Arguments
“Reading” Images
Analysis: Five Common Types of Visual Arguments
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Chapter Five, Writing Research-Based Arguments
Finding an Issue
Finding Sources
Evaluating Sources
Using Sources
Incorporating and Documenting Source Material in the Text of Your Argument
Instructions for Using MLA and APA Style
Direct Quotations
Indirect Quotations
Creating a Works-Cited or Reference List
PART TWO, The Aims of Argument
Chapter Six, Looking for Some Truth: Arguing to Inquire
Inquiry and Interpretation in Academic Writing
The Writing Project: Exploratory Essay, Part One
Conversations and Dialogue in Inquiry
Inquiry Again: Digging Deeper
The Writing Project: Part Two
The Writing Project: Part Three
After Drafting Your Essay
Inquiry: Summing Up the Aim
Chapter Seven, Making Your Case: Arguing to Convince
The Nature of Convincing: Structure and Strategy
Thinking about Audience
Formulating the Thesis
The Process of Writing a Convincing Argument
Chapter Eight, Motivating Action: Arguing to Persuade
When to Convince and When to Persuade: A Matter of Emphasis
Reading a Persuasive Essay
Using the Forms of Appeal
The Process of Writing a Persuasive Essay
Chapter Nine, Mediating Disputes: Arguing to Resolve Conflict
Mediation and the Other Aims of Argument
Analyzing Your Readers
The Proces of Mediation
Finding Creative Solutions: Exploring Common Ground
Exploring Common Ground in the Debate over National Identity
The Mediatory Essay
Analyzing a Mediatory Essay
Writing a Mediatory Essay
Part Three, Two Case Books for Argument
Chapter Ten, Casebook on 09/11/01 and After: Coping With Terrorism
Photo Essay
General Introduction: Three Years After 9/11
Section 1: Background Information
OVERVIEW
* Eileen Berrington, Representations of Terror in the Legitimation of War
* Philip Jenkins, Why Terrorism?
Stephen Zunes, 10 Things to Know About the Middle East
Jim Landers, Bin Laden Allies Want Islamic Unity
* Don Van Natta, Jr., A World Made More Dangerous as Terrorism Spreads
Paul Wilkinson, Analysis of Terrorist Weapons and the Liberal State Response
Questions for Discussion
Writing Assignment Suggestions
Section 2: Views of Terrorism
*Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations?
*Edward W. Said, The Clash of Ignorance
*Charles Krauthammer, The Enemy Is Not Islam: It Is Nihilism
*Yonah Alexander, Terrorism in the Name of God
*Chalmers Johnson, Blowback
Leo Braudy, Terrorism as a Gender War
Questions for Discussion
Writing Assignment Suggestions
Section 3: Assessing the War on Terror
*Rohan Gunaratna, The Al Qaeda Threat and the International Response
*Gorshom Gorenberg, The Terrorist Trap
*Joseph S. Nye, Jr., The Velvet Hegemon: How Soft Power Can Help Defeat Terrorism
*Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay, "The Bush Revolution:
*Noam Chomsky, One Man's World
*John O'Sullivan, Where We Stand: The Situation in Iraq, and How to Go Forward
*Harold Hongju Koh, Rights to Remember
*Dianna Ortiz, Mr. President, Stop the Torture!
Chapter 11, Casebook on Personal Relationships: Sex, Love, and Maybe Even Marriage
Photo/Cartoon Portfolio
Section 1: Defining Love
* Helen Fisher, Web of Love: Lust, Romance, and Attachment
*Diane Ackerman, The Medieval Contribution to Love
*Chrys Ingraham, What Wedding Films Tell Us about Love
Section 2: Choosing Partners
* David Buss, What Women Want
* David Buss, Men Want Something Else
* Natalie Angier, The Gray Matter of Love: An Interview with Geoffrey Miller
* Barbara Defoe Whitehead and David Popenoe, Who Wants to Marry a Soul Mate?
* Jack Armstrong, The Perfect Union
Section 3: Courting, Dating, or Just Hooking Up
*Bella English, Dinner and a Movie? No Thanks on College Campuses
*Jack Grimes, Hook Up Culture
* Ethan Watters, In My Tribe
* Cristina Nehring, Mr. Goodbar Redux: Illusions. Affection. Lies.
* Kate Zernicke, Just Saying No to the Dating Industry
Section 4: Getting Married
*Linda Waite and Maggie Gallagher, Happily Ever After?
*Laura Kipnis, Against Love
*Jane Smiley, Why Marriage?
* Anne Roiphe, Am I the Oldest Living Monogamist?
* Joan Konner, Grown-up Love
Part Four, Readings: Issues and Arguments
Chapter 12, Feminism: Evaluating the Effects of Gender Roles
Cassandra L. Langer, What Is Feminism?
Kirk Anderson, Cartoon
*Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, A Day Without Feminism
Suzanne Fields, Mission No Longer Impossible - Or Is It?
B. Smaller, Cartoon
Joan Williams, Reconstructive Feminism
Gary Trudeau, Cartoon
Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Katha Pollitt, Women’s Rights: As the World Turns
Chapter 13, Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights: Responding to Homophobia
Jeffrey Nickel, Everybody's Threatened by Homophobia
Pete Hamill, Confessions of a Heterosexual
Gary Trudeau, Cartoon
Peter J. Gomes, Homophobic? Reread Your Bible
Jonathan Alter, Degrees of Discomfort
Jonathan Rauch, Beyond Oppression
Chapter 14, Genetics and Enhancement: Better than Human?
*Anne Applebaum, Stem Cell Stumping
*James D. Watson, All for the Good: Why Genetic Engineering Must Soldier On
*Francis Fukuyama, In Defense of Nature: Human and Non-Human
*Gregory Stock, Choosing Our Genes
*Francis Fukuyama/Gregory Stock, The Clone Wars
*Steven Pinker, Why Designer Babies Won't Happen Soon
*Sondra Wheeler, Making Babies
*Carl Elliott, The Tyranny of Happiness
Chapter 15, Liberal Education and Contemporary Culture: What Should Undergraduates Learn?
Arthur Levine and Jeanette S. Cureton, College Life: An Obituary
Lois Bernstein, Photograph
Mark Edmundson, On the Uses of Liberal Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students
Earl Shorris, On the Uses of Liberal Education: As a Weapon in the Hands of the Restless Poor
John Tagg, The Decline of the Knowledge Factory: Why Our Colleges Must Change
Chapter 16, Race and Class: Examining Social Inequality
Bruce Roberts, Photograph
*Richard Ohmann, Is Class an Identity?
*Michael Lind, The Beige and the Black
*Bell Hooks, White Poverty: The Politics of Invisibility
A. Ramey, Photograh
Linda Darling-Hammond, Unequal Opportunity: Race and Education
Shelby Steele, The Recoloring of Campus Life
Patricia J. Williams, The Distribution of Distress
Appendix, A Short Guide to Editing and Proofreading
Glossary of Terms
Glossary
