A Dam Good Argument

by Liz Delf, Rob Drummond, and Kristy Kelly

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Learning about how persuasion works will make you a more thoughtful and skeptical consumer of all that content, so that you can come to your own conclusions and recognize the underlying assumptions that inform attempts to persuade you. This book is about analyzing others' arguments and crafting your own. The rhetorical choices that you make as a writer–from evidence to structure to tone–impact how your audience will receive your ideas. Using those tools effectively will help your voice be heard.

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Publisher
Oregon State University
Subjects
Humanities, Philosophy
Licence
CC BY 4.0, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Introduction to Argument at the College Level
  7. 1.1: Welcome to Another Writing Class!
  8. 1.2: What Does the Instructor Want?
  9. 1.3: There Is More Than One Correct Way of Writing and Speaking
  10. 1.4: Overcoming Writing Anxiety and Writer’s Block
  11. 2: Analyzing Persuasion
  12. 2.1: Backpacks vs. Briefcases
  13. 2.2: The Rhetorical Appeals and Sociohistorical Context
  14. 2.3: Situating Arguments
  15. 2.4: Interpretation, Analysis, and Close Reading
  16. 3: Constructing Arguments
  17. 3.1: Find the Good Argument
  18. 3.2: Aristotelian and Rogerian Argumentation
  19. 3.3: Ten Rules for Ethical Arguments
  20. 3.4: Constructing the Thesis and Argument from the Ground Up
  21. 3.5: Three Kinds of Claims
  22. 3.6: Exigency
  23. 3.7: Strong Writers Still Need Revision
  24. 3.8: Concepts and Strategies for Revision
  25. 4: Working with Sources
  26. 4.1: The Burkean Parlor Metaphor
  27. 4.2: Research Should Start with Questions, Not Answers
  28. 4.3: Finding a Research Question
  29. 4.4: Four Tiers of Sources and How to Tell the Difference
  30. 4.5: How to Find Sources
  31. 4.6: The CRAAP Test
  32. 4.7: Four Moves and a Habit
  33. 4.8: Listening to Sources, Talking to Sources
  34. 4.9: Quoting, Summarizing, and Paraphrasing
  35. 5: Style, Form, Mechanics
  36. 5.1: It's Not Just What You Say, It's How You Say It
  37. 5.2: Introductions and Conclusions
  38. 5.3: Clarity and Concision
  39. 5.4: Deconstructing Plagiarism
  40. 5.5: Giving Credit Where It's Due
  41. 6: Appendices
  42. 6.1: Alternatives to Traditional Grading
  43. 6.2: Antiracist and Inclusive Pedagogy Resources
  44. 6.3: Versioning
  45. Back Matter
  46. Index
  47. Detailed Licensing