Author: Carolyn Channell Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education ISBN: 9780077592202 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
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. NOTE: Aims of Argument: A Brief Guide (ISBN 9781259188503) is available through Create.
Author: Timothy W. Crusius Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages ISBN: 9780767430371 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 408
Book Description
Presents a process-oriented introduction to argumentation with coverage of the aims, or purposes, of argument: to inquire, to convince, to persuade, and to mediate. In contrast to other approaches, the focus on aims provides rhetorical context that helps students write, as well as read, arguments.
Author: Timothy Crusius Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages ISBN: 9780072948356 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 972
Book Description
Provides an introduction to argumentation with coverage of the aims, or purposes, of argument: to inquire, to convince, to persuade, and to mediate. This work focuses on aims to provide rhetorical context that helps students write, as well as read, arguments. It reflects the format of the Modern Language Association documentation style.
Author: Timothy W. Crusius Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages ISBN: 9780072863420 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 972
Book Description
The Aims of Argument is a process-oriented introduction to argumentation with unique coverage of the aims, or purposes, of argument - to inquire, to convince, to persuade, and to mediate. In contrast to other approaches, the focus on aims provides rhetorical context that helps students write, as well as read, arguments.
Author: Dr Controllah Gabi Publisher: Altralogue ISBN: 1999303415 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 291
Book Description
Academic writing is a fresh, structured approach to an important aspect of higher education scholarly work. It extends the existing body of knowledge in the field by synthesising fundamental strands that have existed in a fragmented, loosely structured state. Beginning by examining the meaning, nature and importance of academic writing, this book also explains the role and types of evidence in the context of scholarly writing. To this end, criteria for assessing the credibility of sources in the present Information Age are discussed. Additionally, this text explores critical thinking, analysis and argumentation. There is also guidance on rigour and academic content creation. Complementing this, the book offers essential insights into structure and cohesion, particularly cohesive devices under the broad areas of grammatical and lexical cohesion. As a book designed for learning and teaching, whether self-directed or classroom-based, the book’s other unique features are predesigned modules, with ready-to-use schemes, assignments, assessment criteria and exercises. Another aspect readers of this book will find valuable are academic phrases for different aspects of academic writing. These distinguishing features will appeal to higher education students and teachers interested in academic writing, English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and Academic English.
Author: Peter Mack Publisher: Springer ISBN: 331960158X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 119
Book Description
This book aims to help readers interpret, and reflect on, their reading more effectively. It presents doctrines of ancient and renaissance rhetoric (an education in how to write well) as questions or categories for interpreting one’s reading. The first chapter presents the questions. Later chapters use rhetorical theory to bring out the implications of, and suggest possible answers to, the questions: about occasion and audience (chapter 2), structure and disposition (3), narrative (4), argument (5), further elements of content, such as descriptions, comparisons, proverbs and moral axioms, dialogue, and examples (6), and style (7). Chapter eight describes ways of gathering material, formulating arguments and writing about the texts one reads. The conclusion considers the wider implications of taking a rhetorical approach to reading. The investigation of rhetoric’s questions is interspersed with analyses of texts by Chaucer, Sidney, Shakespeare, Fielding and Rushdie, using the questions. The text is intended for university students of literature, especially English literature, and rhetoric, and their teachers.
Author: Carolyn Channell Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education ISBN: 9781260298826 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 608
Book Description
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.
Author: James Crosswhite Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press ISBN: 9780299149543 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 348
Book Description
Responding to skeptics within higher education and critics without, James Crosswhite argues powerfully that the core of a college education should be learning to write a reasoned argument. A trained philosopher and director of a university-wide composition program, Crosswhite challenges his readers—teachers of writing and communication, philosophers, critical theorists, and educational administrators—to reestablish the traditional role of rhetoric in education. To those who have lost faith in the abilities of people to reach reasoned mutual agreements, and to others who have attacked the right-or-wrong model of formal logic, this book offers the reminder that the rhetorical tradition has always viewed argumentation as a dialogue, a response to changing situations, an exchange of persuading, listening, and understanding. Crosswhite’s aim is to give new purpose to writing instruction and to students’ writing, to reinvest both with the deep ethical interests of the rhetorical tradition. In laying out the elements of argumentation, for example, he shows that claiming, questioning, and giving reasons are not simple elements of formal logic, but communicative acts with complicated ethical features. Students must learn not only how to construct an argument, but the purposes, responsibilities, and consequences of engaging in one. Crosswhite supports his aims through a rhetorical reconstruction of reason, offering new interpretations of Plato and Aristotle and of the concepts of reflection and dialogue from early modernity through Hegel to Gadamer. And, in his conclusion, he ties these theoretical and historical underpinnings to current problems of higher education, the definition of the liberal arts, and, especially, the teaching of written communication.
Author: Carolyn Channell
Author: Timothy W. Crusius
Author: Timothy W. Crusius
Author: Timothy Crusius
Author: Timothy W. Crusius
Author: Crusius
Author: Dr Controllah Gabi
Author: Peter Mack
Author: Carolyn Channell
Author: James Crosswhite