Language Arts & Disciplines : Rhetoric

Thank You for Arguing is your master class in the art of persuasion, taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill. The time-tested secrets the book discloses include Cicero’s three-step strategy for moving an audience to actionÑas well as Honest Abe’s Shameless Trick of lowering an audience’s expectations by pretending to be unpolished. more...

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This brilliant book, now in its second edition, gives you the confidence to tell a good from a bad argument. For everyone who wants to refine their power of argument, Thinking from A to Z is an indispensable reference tool. more...

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The result of a long-term study of one university's introductory composition program, Broad's approach to mapping the values that inform writing evaluation is empirically grounded, painstakingly analyzed, yet flexible, human, and pedagogically wise. Not simple, but surely practical, his method yields a more satisfactory process of exploration and a more useful representation of the values by which compositionists actually evaluate their students. With this important study, Broad moves the field far beyond rubrics in teaching and assessing writing. more...

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Showing that writing groups function first and foremost as literary events, this work argues for writing groups to be seen contextually. One can then begin to comprehend the different types of collaboration that take place in writing groups across setting and communities. more...

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