Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments [Rental Edition]

For courses in Argument.

A practical, visually engaging introduction to argument supported by provocative readings on contemporary issues

Nothing you learn in college will prove to be more important than the ability to create an effective argument. That’s the philosophy embodied in Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments, 7th Edition, an argument rhetoric/reader which avoids complicated schemes and terminology in favor of providing readers with the practical ways of finding "good reasons" to argue for the positions they take. The text uses lively, nontechnical language, an attractive visual design, numerous examples, and fresh, timely readings to engage readers’ interest. The revised 7th Edition includes more than 40 new readings, along with new case studies, chapters, and projects.

Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments , 7th Edition is also available via Revel™, an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience. Learn more.                

Lester Faigley holds the Robert Adger Law and Thos. H. Law Professorship in Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. He was the founding director of the Division (now Department) of Rhetoric and Writing at Texas in 1993, and he later served as Director of the University Writing Center. He was the 1996 Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Faigley has published over 30 books and editions, including Fragments of Rationality (Pittsburgh, 1992), which received the MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize.

Jack Selzer has collaborated with colleagues at Penn State and elsewhere in all kinds of ways. With his long-time friend Lester Faigley, he has written two Pearson books, Good Reasons and Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments, now in their 7th Editions, and he also has edited a number of versions of Conversations: Readings for Writing, currently in its 8th Edition (now edited by Dominic Delli Carpini). A Fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America, once a president of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, and the creator of Penn State’s innovative Paterno Fellows Program, he has published or edited a number scholarly articles and books, including Rhetorical Bodies (with Sharon Crowley), Kenneth Burke in the 1930s (with Ann George), and Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village. He enjoys teaching a first-year seminar on the rhetoric of the civil rights movement, and happens to be a charter member of the longest continuously running fantasy sports league on the face of the earth.

I. Reading and Discovering Arguments

1. Making an Effective Argument

2. Reading Arguments

3. Finding Arguments

4. Drafting Arguments

5. Revising and Editing Arguments

II. Analyzing Arguments

6. Analyzing Written Arguments

7. Analyzing Visual and Multimedia Arguments

III. Writing Arguments

8. Definition Arguments

9. Causal Arguments

10. Evaluation Arguments

11. Narrative Arguments

12. Rebuttal Arguments

13. Proposal Arguments

IV. Designing and Presenting Arguments

14. Designing Multimedia Arguments

15. Presenting Arguments

V. Researching Arguments

16. Planning Research

17. Finding Sources

18. Evaluating and Recording Sources

19. Writing the Research Project

20. Documenting Sources in MLA Style

21. Documenting Sources in APA Style

VI. Contemporary Arguments

22. Sustainability

23. City Life

24. Education

25. Science and Ethics

26. Regulating Substances, Regulating Bodies

27. Brave New Gadgets

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