Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy
The Critical Citizen's Guide to Argumentative Rhetoric
- 398 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy
The Critical Citizen's Guide to Argumentative Rhetoric
About this book
This brief edition of a groundbreaking textbook addresses the need for college students to develop critical reading, writing, and thinking skills for self-defense in the contentious arena of American civic rhetoric. Designed for first-year or more advanced composition and critical thinking courses, it is one-third shorter than the original edition, more affordable for students, and easier for teachers to cover in a semester or quarter. It incorporates up-to-date new readings and analysis of controversies like the growing inequality of wealth in America and the debates in the 2008 presidential campaign, expressed in opposing viewpoints from the political left and right. Exercises help students understand the ideological positions and rhetorical patterns that underlie such opposing views. Widely debated issues of whether objectivity is possible and whether there is a liberal or conservative bias in news and entertainment media, as well as in education itself, are foregrounded as topics for rhetorical analysis.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface for Teachers (and Curious Students) to the Brief Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: Introduction
- Part II: Attaining an Open Mind: Overcoming Psychological Obstacles to Critical Thinking
- Part III: Elements of Argumentative Rhetoric
- Part IV: Thinking Critically About the Rhetoric of Politics and Mass Media
- Part V: Putting It All Together in a Long Paper
- Index
- Credits