Everything's an Argument Author: Amazon Prime Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering | Language: English | ISBN:
1457606062 | Format: EPUB
Everything's an Argument Description
This best-selling brief text shows students how to analyze all kinds of argument — not just essays and editorials, but clothes, cars, ads, and even website designs — and then how to use what they learn to write effective arguments.
- Paperback: 560 pages
- Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's; Sixth Edition edition (October 5, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1457606062
- ISBN-13: 978-1457606069
- Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I am disappointed with this text overall. I like the first chapter on everything's an argument and love the images for illustration and anlysis. But in teaching rhetorical analysis and other types of arguments, I have found that the text uses student examples that are too sophisticated to help my first year students who are taking the course for general education credit. Where do they get the student examples? I suggest taking some from various levels, not just the best.
The explanations of the arguments are thorough but troublesome in that the author's political assumptions are embedded. Some students have objected to them. My students are also having difficulty digesting the text and using it to develop their own argument papers. I find that I am supplementing too much to support the text. Bottom line: I won't use this text again for a general first year course.
On the other hand, I like having the section on writing and revision application with each chapter. It would help to show a paper in process from start to finish.
By S. Williams
I thoroughly enjoyed using this book in my AP English Language class as a Junior in high school. Some of the more negative reviews complain that it was over the students' head or that college students don't understand satire, but that was not at all the case in my high school class. The examples are relevant and engaging. The text doesn't talk down to the students. The only con is that the authors political views do come through every once in a while, which contradicts the book teaching against bias, but overall if the students can pick up on it as we all did very quickly, it becomes a lesson in bias, and in no way detracts from the book (especially as the students are learning to read everything with a grain of salt and engage all texts with their own point of view). Overall this is my favorite text book I have ever been assigned, and was always delighted to be assigned a chapter to read.
By sm
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