num_pages: 560
description: Brief, flexible, and economical, this Penguin Academics anthology presents classic and contemporary arguments on landmark issues in American the environment, education, censorship, civil disobedience, the struggle for liberation, and immigration and assimilation. Argument in America offers multi-sided dialogues on timeless issues fundamental to American culture and civic identity. The book introduces students to an historical dimension as well as contemporary perspectives from a wide range of authors writing in many essays, speeches, poems, stories, and visual arguments. The final section of the anthology, "Arguments on Argument," features several selections on the nature of argument itself. Helpful but unobtrusive editorial apparatus includes a brief general introduction, introductions to the seven sections, discussion questions, and headnotes for the selections, many of which explain how the selection contributes to the argumentative issue at hand.
language: English
title: Argument in America: Essential Issues, Essential Texts
titlecomplete: Argument in America: Essential Issues, Essential Texts (Penguin Academics Series)
ratings_count: 15
publisher: Pearson