For Argument's Sake: A Guide to Writing Effective Arguments,9780321085047

For Argument's Sake: A Guide to Writing Effective Arguments

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Edition: 4th
ISBN13: 9780321085047
ISBN10: 0321085043
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-01-01
Publisher(s): Longman
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Summary

This concise, student-friendly rhetoric provides clear, highly practical advice for writing arguments, including the four most common types: factual, causal, evaluation, and recommendation. Structured around the three main phases of writing - focusing, supporting, and reviewing, For Argument's Sake helps students find and focus a claim, identify an audience, work through the support process, and then refine and polish their argument. Numerous sample arguments illustrate the principles and strategies including several pieces written by students. This edition features new coverage of conducting and evaluating electronic research and additional student samples.

Table of Contents

Contents v
Preface xii
An Introduction to Argument
1(9)
Where Writing Begins: Motives and Audience
10(10)
The Claim
20(19)
An Argument's Support
39(14)
Making Reasonable Arguments: Formal and Informal Logic
53(20)
Arguing Facts
73(20)
Arguing Cause
93(23)
Arguing Evaluations
116(29)
Arguing Recommendations
145(21)
Writing and Image
166(12)
Introductions and Conclusions
178(12)
Revising
190(13)
Credits 203(1)
Index 204

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