This introduction to argumentation with integrated readings and abundant activities combines coverage of the principles of classical argument with a focus on the various community contexts - historical and contemporary - that influence arguments.
*indicates a selection new to this edition
PART ONE: ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES
Chapter 1, ARGUMENTS IN CONTEXT
Community and Context
Rhetorical Situations within Communities
The Life Cycle of a Rhetorical Situation
Responding to a Rhetorical Situation
A General Method for Arguing
The Principles in Action: Readings
Understanding Communities
J. B. PRIESTLEY, Wrong Ism
BILL WODRASKA, The Gentle Art of Hunkering
AMY BRUCKMAN, Finding One’s Own in Cyberspace
ANALYZING EVERYDAY ARGUMENTS
*RICK REILLY, The Swooshification of the World
*ROBERT GOLDMAN and STEPHEN PAPSON, Suddenly the Swoosh Is Everywhere
Considering Columbine: The Rhetorical Situation
“What Are You Wearing to the Prom?”
*DENVER POST, Columbine Timeline
*MIKE SORGHAN, Tragedy Focuses Attention on Gun Bills
*CHUCK GREEN, It’s Time to Find Out What’s Wrong with Our Hateful Society
Practicing the Principles: Activities
Applying the Principles: Analytical Projects
Chapter 2, ANALYZING AND EVALUATING ETHOS
Ethos: Arguing from Credibility
Creating Ethos
The Principles in Action: Readings
Ethos and Personal Experience
LESLIE MARMOM SILKO, The Border Patrol State
*CAROLYN EDY, Single Motherhood Is a Joy, Not a Disaster
*CHAN-LIN TIEN, A View from Berkeley
Ethos in Visual Argument: Corporate Image Making
Considering Columbine: Responding to the Shootings
*NEWSWEEK Panel Discussion, Moving Beyond the Blame Game
*DARRELL SCOTT, Speech to Congress after Columbine Massacre
*DEVON ADAMS, Mourn for the Killers, Too
*CHARLTON HESTON, Address to the NRA Meeting
Practicing the Principles: Activities
Applying the Principles: Analytical Projects
Ethos at Work
*SYLVIA CARY, The Big Bash
*JAMES GILLIGAN, Reflections from a Life Behind Bars: Build Colleges Not Prisons
Chapter 3, ANALYZING AND EVALUATING PATHOS
Pathos: Arguing through Emotion
Creating Pathos
The Principles in Action: Readings
Understanding Pathos
GRETCHEN LETTERMAN, Tiny Fighters Are Victims of Mother’s Smoke
An Analysis of Letterman’s Essay
Pathos in Advertising
Dakin Toy Advertisement
American Red Cross Advertisement
Humane Farming Association Advertisement
Considering Columbine: Remembering the Victims
*KENNETH WOODWARD, The Making of a Martyr
*SCREEN CAPTURE, Voices of Columbine
*JANET BINGHAM, “Gerda Weissmann Klein and Melissa Pillow: Holocaust Survivor Comforts Columbine Survivor”
*ROGER ROSENBLATT, A Note for Rachel Scott
* Students at High School Shooting Memorial
Columbine Memorial
Practicing the Principles: Activities
Applying the Principles: Analytical Projects
Personal Experience and Emotion
*JONATHAN COLVIN, Me, My Clone, and I (or In Defense of Human Cloning)
*RON STODGHILL II, In Search of Brotherhood
Pathos in Advertising
*Nature Made Advertisement
*Council for Biotechnology Information Advertisement
*American Civil Liberties Union Advertisement
*Du Pont Advertisement
Chapter 4, ANALYZING AND EVALUATING LOGOS
Logos: Arguing through Reasoning
Creating Logos
Claims
Reasons
Assumptions
Evaluating Logos
Fallacies
Fallacies of Ethos
Fallacies of Pathos
Fallacies of Logos
Quantitative Arguments
The Principles in Action: Readings
Playing the Numbers
STEPHEN BUDIANSKY, The Numbers Racket: How Polls and Statistics Lie
WILLIAM LUTZ, from Doublespeak
*BILL BRYSON, The Risk Factor
*BILL BRYSON, The Numbers Game
Considering Columbine: Looking for Answers
*BARBARA LERNER, The Killer Narcissists: The Missing Explanation
*CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL, Levittown to Littleton: How the Suburbs Have Changed
*JUDITH A. REISMAN, Cultivating Killers: Pop Culture Is Getting Away with Murder
Practicing the Principles: Activities
Applying the Principles: Analytical Projects
Practice with Fallacies
*Exercises from ZACHARY SEECH, Logic in Everyday Life
*Exercises from RALPH JOHNSON and J. ANTHONY BLAIR, Logical Self-Defense
American Overconsumption
*GREG CRITSER Let Them Eat Fat
*BILL BRYSON, The Fat of the Land
*LESLIE LAMBERT, Fat Like Me
Chapter 5, WRITING ARGUMENTS
The Process of Writing an Argument
Adapting to the Community
Challenging the Community
Organizing Your Argument
The Principles in Action: Readings
Adapting to the Community
ALABAMA CLERGYMEN, Public Statement by Eight Alabama Clergymen
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., Letter from Birmingham Jail
*KEITH D. MILLER, Letter from Jail
Challenging the Community
*JONATHAN SWIFT, A Modest Proposal
SALLIE TISDALE, We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse’s Story
*URSULA LEGUIN, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
*SANDRA FELDMAN, The Childswap Society
Taking Your Turn
*TITO MORALES, SUVS: Fuel-Wasting Garbage Trucks?
*PATRICK VALA-HAYNES, What Does Online Shopping Cost Us?
*MICHELE SCARFF, The Full-Time Stress of Part-Time Professors
*CHRISTINE MITCHELL, When Living Is a Fate Worse than Death
*AUDREY ROCK-RICHARDSON, Pay Your Own Way! (Then Thank Mom)
*JUDY PUTNAM, Grieving for a Pet? I Won’t Roll My Eyes
*DONNA CORNACHIO, What Do I Get the Boy Who Has Everything?
*EMILY MOORE, Why Teachers Are Not ‘Those Who Can’t’
Practicing the Principles: Activities
Applying the Principles: Analytical Projects
Humor, Satire, and Irony
*GARRY B. TRUDEAU, Doonesbury
*ANNA QUINDLEN, In Defense of *$##@$%#
*DAVID OWEN, How I'm Doing
*ANDY BOROWITZ, Day Trading Made Easy
*GEORGE F. WILL, The Perils of Brushing
*ROBERTA F. BORKAT, A Liberating Curriculum
Student Voices
*RACHEL ROSSHIRT, Our Actors Need Help
*KAYLA CRAWFORD, Quit Blaming Teachers for Low Academic Achievement
*JEFF JONES, The Law of the New Economy
*ERIN BEAVERS, The Case for Graduated Driver Licensing
Chapter 6, WRITING RESEARCHED ARGUMENTS
What Research Contributes to Argument
Types of Research and Sources
What Research Looks Like in Arguments
The Process of Writing From Sources
Documentation Styles
The Principles in Action: Readings
The Dihydrogen Monoxide Controversy
*COALITION TO BAN DHMO, Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide!
*DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE RESEARCH DIVISION, Dihydrogen Monoxide FAQ
*Material Safety Sheet for Dihydrogen Monoxide
*HYDROGEN HYDROXIDE Now More than Ever!
Practicing the Principles: Activities
Applying the Principles: Analytical Projects
*STEVEN LEVY, The Noisy War Over Napster
*LARS ULRICH, It's Our Property
*ADAM COHEN and CHRIS TAYLOR, The Infoanarchists
*VANESSA HUA, If It Feels Good . . .
*DAN FOST, Napster Use Can Be Research
*GINA ARNOLD, You Say You Want a Revolution?
*KEELY COSBY, Should the Fate of Napster be Determined by the Interpretation of Law?
PART TWO: TYPES OF CLAIMS
Chapter 7, ARGUING CLAIMS ABOUT EXISTENCE
Our Differences about Experience
Questions about Existence
Evaluating Claims about Existence
The Principles in Action: Readings
The Reliability of Eyewitness Testimony
*ELIZABETH LOFTUS, Eyewitnesses Essential But Unreliable
BARRY WINSTON, Stranger Than True: Why I Defend Guilty Clients
The Media and Reported Experience
NEIL POSTMAN and STEVE POWERS, What Is News?
Controversial Claims about Existence
*DAVID FRANCE, The HIV Disbeliever
*CURTIS PEEBLES, Abductions and Abductionists
Practicing the Principles: Activities
Applying the Principles: Analytical Projects
The Digital Divide
*CHRIS O'MALLEY, The Digital Divide
*THOMAS A. STEWART, A Nation of Net Have-Nots? No.
*ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, III, Falling for the Gap
*LOGAN HILL, Racial Digital Divide
JENNIFER LACH, Crossing the Digital Divide
Chapter 8, ARGUING CLAIMS ABOUT CAUSALITY
Types of Causes
Constructing Cause-and-Effect Diagrams
Explaining Causality
Evaluating Claims about Causality
The Principles in Action: Readings
VIRGINIA JENKINS, from The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession
*FORD FESSENDEN, They Threaten, Seethe and Unhinge, Then Kill in Quantity and How Youngest Killers Differ: Peer Support
*MICHAEL W. FOX, Manure, Minerals, and Methane
*TERRY CAESAR, In and Out of Elevators in Japan
Practicing the Principles: Activities
Applying the Principles: Analytical Projects
Male Body Image
*HARRISON G. POP, JR., et al, Evolving Ideas of Male Body Image as Seen Through Action Toys
*RICHARD LACAYO, Are You Man Enough?
Computers and Youth Culture
*IAN ZACK, Universities Find Sharp Rise in Computer-Aided Cheating
*JOHN LELAND, The Secret Life of Teens
*AMY HARMON, Study Says Net Use, Depression May Be Linked
Chapter 9, ARGUING CLAIMS ABOUT LANGUAGE
Our Differences about Language
Arguing about What Words Mean
Defining Troublesome Terms
Arguing about How Language Should be Used
Evaluating Claims about Language
The Principles in Action: Readings
Language and Advertising
LESLIE SAVAN, The Bribed Soul
CHARLES O’NEILL, The Language of Advertising
