Good reasons with contemporary arguments /

Faigley, Lester, 1947-,

Good reasons with contemporary arguments / [print] Lester Faigley, Jack Selzer, Josephine Pirrone. - High school edition. [fifth edition.. - Boston : Pearson, (c)2012. - xx, 620 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographies and index.

Reading and discovering arguments. Making an effective argument ; Reading arguments ; Finding arguments ; Synthesis : incorporating arguments from multiple sources ; Drafting and revising arguments ; Arguing with style -- Analyzing arguments. Analyzing a written argument ; Analyzing visual and multimedia arguments -- Writing arguments. Putting good reasons into action ; Definition arguments ; Causal arguments ; Evaluation arguments ; Narrative arguments ; Rebuttal arguments ; Proposal arguments -- Researching arguments. Planning and writing the research project ; Conducting field research ; Finding secondary sources ; Evaluating and recording sources ; Avoiding plagiarism ; Documenting sources in MLA style -- Contemporary arguments. Negotiating the environment ; Education ; Globalization : importing and exporting America ; Science and ethics ; Privacy ; Regulating substances ; New media.



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English language--Rhetoric.
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
Report writing.

PE1431.P672.G663 2012 PE1431