New chapter topics that speak to issues of paramount concern to students include social networking, changing cultural attitudes about food and bottled water, and the future of work in the contemporary economy.
55 new reading selections engage students with timely topics.
- Wikipedia provides a collaborative explanation of "Local Food."
- Fareed Zakaria argues that having "globalized" the world, Americans now have to learn to globalize themselves.
- Barack Obama’s Election Night speech makes a Rogerian call for American renewal.
- Additional readings available online through the book’s Student Center and replaced or updated annually.
A new chapter on academic argument takes an engaging, inductive approach to helping students understand the distinctive features and expectations of argument in academic contexts, including types of claims and evidence; the academic audience; tone and word choice; and synthesis, use, and citation of sources. The chapter concludes with two sample essays, one by a student.
7 new model essays for specific types of argument include evaluations of Facebook and Chris Rock and a factual argument about the distinction between civil unions and marriage.
An expanded discussion of classical and Rogerian argument joins the coverage of Toulmin argument, providing more detailed explanations of the origins of rhetorical analysis in the ancient world and of contemporary "win-win" theories of argument.
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