Description
Book SynopsisThis Workbook is a collection of exercises and case studies designed to serve as a companion to Reading Argumentative Texts: Analytic Tools to Improve Understanding. The exercises and case studies track each of the chapters of Reading and provide opportunities for students to hone their skills at using the analytic tools presented in Reading, and to acquire additional analytic tools and concepts. These tools are illustrated through the analysis of complete essays from the mass media, speeches, a sermon, and passages from academic works.
The approach is flexible and practical and avoids academic jargon and specific theories of argumentation. As is the case with Reading, this Workbook is grounded in two principles. First, that the meaning of an argumentative text is to be found in the statements that constitute the argument itself, in other statements that are more or less directly related to the argument, and in the structure and context of the text. Accordingly, while this bo
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Reading Is Not a Spectator Sport
Chapter 3. Why Are You Reading?
Chapter 4. Arguments: A Closer Look
Chapter 5. Every Person Has a Skeleton, Every Argument Has a Structure
Chapter 6. What Does the Skeleton Look Like? Outlines and Summaries
Chapter 7. Ambiguity and Nonliteral Uses of Language
Chapter 8. Context Imparts Meaning
Chapter 9. The ABC’s of Logic
Appendix I. Answer Key
Appendix II. Ramya Vijaya, Refugees don’t undermine the US economy—they energize it.
Appendix III. William Deresiewicz, The Disadvantages of an Elite Education
Appendix IV. Carl J. Asszony, True meaning of July 4 is sacrifice
Appendix V. Martin Luther King, Jr., Antidotes for fear
Appendix VI. Trevor Burrus, It’s Time to End Any Level of Federal Marijuana Prohibition
