Argument
By: edited by Christy Desmet, Kathy Houff Speak, Deborah Church Miller.
Contributors: Desmet, Christy, 1954-; Speak, Kathy Houff.; Miller, Deborah Church.
Series: A Prentice Hall pocket reader
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric; Persuasion (Rhetoric); College readers; Report writing
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-120).
Table of contents: title: 1. Arguments about people and places: They knew but little / Wendell Berry ; The first cure / Black Elk (amanuensis John G. Neihardt) ; Grant and Lee : a study in contrasts / Bruce Catton ; Why I want a wife / Judy Brady ; We knew what glory was / Shirlee Taylor Haizlip ; Shooting and elephant / George Orwell; title: 2. Arguments about politics, policy, and social change: Of girls and chicks / Francine Frank and Frank Ashen ; The man-made myth / Elaine Morgan ; Teaching resistance : the racial politics of mass media / bell hooks ; The obligation to endure / Rachel Carson ; Late night thoughts on listening the Mahler's Ninth symphony / Lewis Thomas ; A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift ; Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King Jr.; title: 3. Reflecting argument as a process: How to tell a true war story / Tim O'Brien ; Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus / Francis P. Church ; The median isn't the message / Stephen Jay Gould ; Silent dancing / Judith Ortiz Cofer ; How to turn debate into dialogue / Deborah Tannen.