Dialogues: An Argument Rhetoric and Reader (6th Edition)
This newer concept of argument informs every page of this dramatically revised third edition, now titledDialogues: An Argument Rhetoric and Reader.  Part One of the text demonstrates how students can use the strategies of debate, dialogue, and deliberation to engage meaningfully with people holding diverse viewpoints.  In Part Two, Current Dialogues, four major new themes and 17 new subtopics present a multiplicity of viewpoints on various timely topics.  New writing assignments after each subtopic ask students to synthesize their understanding of different arguments as they write their own.  With 90 percent new readings, this edition ofDialoguesrepresents a substantial revision of argument.Highlights ofDialogues, Third Edition:Entirely new strategies for debate, dialogue, and deliberationEntirely new Chapter 2, "Reading Arguments: Thinking Like a Critic"Twenty sample arguments for analysis in Part OneThe latest material on finding and evaluating Internet resourcesNew sample student arguments cited in MLA and APA stylesLogical fallacies coverage in Chapter 2 and integrated throughout90 percent new readings in Part TwoTwo casebooks on high-interest topics: "Juvenile Crime, Adult Punishment?" and "Teen Parents: Children Having Children?"The Black Freedom Struggle: Arguments That Shaped History": arguments of the civil rights movement on education, nonviolence, equal opportunity, and the effects of the movement today--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.