Donald Lazere, Anne-Marie Womack

Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy (eBook, PDF)

The Critical Citizen's Guide to Argumentative Rhetoric, Brief Edition

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This edition is updated for a new era of populism, racial tensions, and the most rhetorical presidential campaign in memory - addressing the need for college students to develop critical reading, writing, and thinking skills for self-defense in the contentious arena of American civic rhetoric.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351689038
• Artikelnr.: 60026384

Autorenporträt

Donald Lazere is Professor Emeritus of English at Cal Poly State U, San Luis Obispo. He has written or edited six other scholarly and text books on argumentative rhetoric and the politics of education, media, and literature. He has also published widely on these topics in scholarly journals as well as in opinion columns and book reviews for journalistic periodicals such as the Washington Post, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times.

Anne-Marie Womack is a Professor of Practice and former Director of Writing at Tulane University. She's the creator of the award-winning AccessibleSyllabus.com, a guide to universally designing educational documents. Her articles appear in College Composition and Communication, Composition Forum, Pedagogy, and Hybrid Pedagogy, among others. Currently, she is co-authoring a book on inclusive college classrooms with Lauren Cardon.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to Teachers and Students
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: An Appeal to Students
Chapter 2: Good Arguments
Chapter 3: Definitions and Criteria of Critical Thinking
Chapter 4: Semantics in Rhetoric and Critical Thinking
Chapter 5: Writing Argumentative Papers
Part II: Attaining an Open Mind: Overcoming Psychological Blocks to Critical Thinking
Chapter 6: From Cocksure Ignorance to Thoughtful Uncertainty: Viewpoint
Bias
and Culturally Conditioned Assumptions
Chapter 7: Overgeneralization
Stereotyping
and Prejudice
Chapter 8: Authoritarianism and Conformity
Rationalization and Compartmentalization
Part III: Elements of Argumentative Rhetoric
Chapter 9: Some Key Terms in Logic and Argumentation
Chapter 10: Fallacies
Chapter 11: Causal Analysis
Chapter 12: Uses and Misuses of Emotional Appeal
Part IV: Thinking Critically about the Rhetoric of Politics and Mass Media
Chapter 13: Thinking Critically about Political Rhetoric
Chapter 14: Thinking Critically about Mass Media
Chapter 15: Deception Detection: Varieties of Special Interests and Propaganda
Chapter 16: From Reaganomics to Trumponomics: Opposing Views on Taxation and the Wealth Gap
Index
Works Cited