James E. Scheuermann

A Workbook for Reading Argumentative Texts

Analytic Tools to Improve Understanding

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

his Workbook teaches the tools essential to analyzing and understanding the meaning of nonfiction texts that assert arguments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 234g
• ISBN-13: 9781475864748
• ISBN-10: 1475864744
• Artikelnr.: 62916162

Autorenporträt

James E. Scheuermann received his Ph.D. (in philosophy) from the University of Chicago and his J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. For more than 40 years, as a high school and college teacher and lawyer, he has been analyzing argumentative texts for his students and professional colleagues. He is the author of numerous articles in scholarly philosophy journals and law reviews, and in other legal publications.

Inhaltsangabe

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