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Tables of Contents for Everythings an Argument With Readings
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Preface
v
PART 1 INTRODUCTION ARGUMENT
1
46
Everything Is an Argument
3
19
Argument isn't just about winning
5
2
Arguments to Inform
7
1
Arguments to Convince
7
1
Arguments to Explore
8
1
Arguments to Make Decisions
9
1
Arguments to Meditate or Pray
10
1
Occasions for Argument
10
1
Arguments about the Past
11
1
Arguments about the Future
12
1
Arguments about the Present
13
1
Kinds of Argument
13
2
Arguments of Fact--Did Something Happen?
15
1
Arguments of Definition--What is the Naute of the Thing?
15
1
Arguments of Evaluation--What is the Quality of the Thing?
16
1
Proposal Arguments--What Actions Should Be Taken?
17
2
Cultural Contexts for Arguments
18
1
Is Everthing an Argument?
19
3
Respond
19
3
Reading and Writing Arguments
22
15
Connecting As Reader or Writer
23
3
Understanding Lines of Argument
26
1
Arguments from the Heart
26
1
Arguments Based on Values
27
1
Arguments Based on Character
28
1
Arguments Based on Facts and Reason
29
1
Making A Claim
30
2
Giving An Argument Shape
32
1
Giving An Argument Style
33
1
Managing the Conventions of Argument
34
3
Respond
35
2
Readers and Contexts Count
37
10
Mappingf the Territory of Readers
38
2
Establishing Credibility
40
1
Demonstrate Knowledge
40
1
Cultural Contexts for Argument
41
1
Highlight Shared Values
41
1
Refer to Common Experiences
42
1
Build Commonm Ground
42
1
Respect Readers
43
1
Thinking About Readers
44
3
Respond
45
2
PART 2 LINES OF ARGUMENT
47
42
Arguments from the Heart
49
8
Understanding How Emotional Arguments Work
50
1
Using Emotions to Build Bridges
50
2
Using Emotions to Sustain an Argument
52
2
Using Humor
54
3
Respond
55
2
Arguments Based on Values
57
7
Understanding How Values Arguments Work
58
1
Using Values to Define
58
1
Embracing or Rejecting Values
59
1
Comparing Values
60
4
Respond
62
2
Arguments Based on Character
64
9
Understanding How Arguments Based on Character Work
65
1
Claiming Authority
66
3
Cultural Contexts for Argument
68
1
Establishing Credibility
69
4
Respond
71
2
Arguments Based on Facts and Reason
73
16
Inartistic Arguments
74
1
Facts and Evidence
75
2
Statistics
77
1
Surveys, Polls, and Studies
78
2
Testimonies, Reports, and Interviews
80
2
Artistic Appeals
82
1
Cultural Assumptions
83
1
Other Artistic Appeals
84
5
Respond
86
3
PART 3 WRITING ARGUMENTS
89
148
Structuring Arguments
91
18
Toulmin Argument
91
1
Making Claims
92
2
Cultural Contexts for Argument
93
1
Attaching Reasons
94
1
Determining Warrants
95
4
Offering Evidence: Backing and Grounds
99
3
Using Qualifiers
102
1
Understanding Conditions of Rebuttal
103
2
Beyond Toulmin
105
4
Cultural Contexts for Argument
106
1
Respond
106
3
Arguments of Definition
109
26
Understanding Arguments of Definition
110
1
Characterizing Definition
111
1
Formal Definitions
112
1
Operational Definitions
112
1
Definitions by Example
113
1
Other Issues of Definition
114
1
Developing A Definitional Argument
114
1
Formulating Claims
115
2
Crafting Definitions
117
2
Matching Claims to Definitions
119
1
Key Features of Definitional Arguments
120
9
Guide to Writing an Argument of Definition
122
5
Respond
127
2
Two Sample Arguments of Definition
129
6
Michael Kingston, Creating a Criminal
129
3
Gretel Ehrlich, About Men
132
3
Evaluations
135
26
Understanding Evaluations
136
2
Characterizing Evaluation
138
1
Quantitative Evaluations
139
1
Qualitative Evaluations
140
1
Developing An Evaluative Argument
141
1
Formulating Criteria
142
2
Making Claims
144
1
Presenting Evidence
145
1
Key Features of Evaluations
146
8
Guide to Writing an Evaluation
147
5
Respond
152
2
Two Sample Evaluations
154
7
Ben McCorkle, The Simpsons: A Mirror of Society
154
2
Larissa MacFarquhar, Who Cares If Johnny Can't Read?
156
5
Causal Arguments
161
29
Understanding Causal Arguments
162
3
Characterizing Causal Arguments
165
1
Developing Causal Arguments
166
1
Formulating a Claim
166
1
Developing the Argument
167
5
Key Features of Causal Arguments
172
8
Guide to Writing A Causal Argument
173
5
Respond
178
2
Two Sample Causal Arguments
180
10
La Donna Beaty, What Makes a Serial Killer?
180
7
Lester C. Thurow, Why Women Are Paid Less Than Men
187
3
Proposals
190
25
Understanding and Categorizing Proposals
191
1
Charaterizing Proposals
192
1
Developing Proposals
193
1
Making a Strong and Clear Claim
194
1
Relating the Claim to a Need or Problem
194
2
Showing That the Proposal Addresses the Need or Problem
196
1
Showing That the Proposal is Feasible
197
1
Using Personal Experience
197
1
Key Features of Proposals
198
1
Considering Design
198
9
Guide to Writing a Proposal
200
5
Respond
205
2
Two Sample Proposals
207
8
Brent Knutson, Auto Liberation
207
6
Denn is Baron, Don't Make English Official--Ban It Instead
213
2
Humorous Argument
215
22
Understanding Humor as Argument
216
3
Characterizing Kinds of Humor
219
1
Humor
219
Satire
221
223
Parody
223
1
Signifying
223
1
Developing Humorous Arguments
224
1
Key Features of Humorous Arguments
225
7
Guide to Writing a Humorous Argument
227
4
Respond
231
1
Two Sample Humorous Arguments
232
5
Kirsten Dockendroff, The Road to Acme Looniversity
232
3
DaveBarry, A Look at Sports Nuts--And We Do Mean Nuts
235
2
PART 4 STYLISH ARGUMENT
237
58
Figurative Language and Argument
239
12
Tropes
242
1
Metaphor
242
1
Simile
242
1
Analogy
243
1
Other Tropes
244
2
Schemes
246
2
Cultural Contexts for Argument
247
1
Dangers of Unduly Slanted Language
248
3
Respond
249
2
Visual Arguments
251
21
The Power of Visual Arguments
252
2
Happing the Message
254
1
Achieving Visual Literacy
255
3
Analyzing Visual Elements of Arguments
258
3
Using Visuals in Your own Arguments
261
1
Visual Arguments Based on Character
261
3
Visual Arguments Based on Facts and Reason
264
3
Visual Arguments That Appeal to Emotion
267
5
Respond
270
2
Arguments in Electronic Environments
272
13
Email and Discussions Groups
274
1
Email
274
1
Usenet Newsgroups and Listservs
275
2
Real-Time Communication: IRCs and Moos
277
1
IRCs
277
1
MOOs
278
1
Web Sites
279
3
Key Points to Remember in Arguing Electronically
282
3
Respond
283
2
Spoken Arguments
285
10
Contexts for Spoken Arguments
286
1
Formal Presentations
286
1
Arguments to Be Heard
287
1
Introductions and Conclusions
287
1
Structres and Signposts
288
1
Diction and Syntax
288
2
Arguments to be Remembered
290
1
Repetition, Parallelism, and Climactic Order
290
1
The Role of Visuals
291
1
The Imporatance of Delivery
292
2
Some Helpful Presentation Strategies
294
1
Respond
294
1
Part 5 CONVENTIONS OF ARGUMENT
295
74
What Counts as Evidence
297
15
Evidence and the Rhetorical Situation
298
1
Firsthand Evidence
299
1
Observations
300
1
Interviews
301
1
Surveys and Questionnaires
302
1
Experiments
303
1
Personal Experience
304
1
Cultural Contexts for Argument
305
1
Secondhand Evidence
305
1
Library Sources
305
1
Online Sources
306
2
Using Evidence Effectivity
308
1
Considering Audiences
308
1
Building a Critical Mass
308
1
Arranging Evidence
309
3
Cultural Contexts for Argument
309
1
Respond
310
2
Fallacies of Argument
312
14
Fallacies of Fmotional Argument
313
1
Scare Tactics
314
1
Either-Or Choices
314
1
Slippery Slope
315
1
Sentimental Appeals
316
1
Bandwagon Appeals
316
1
Fallacies of Ethical Argument
317
1
Appeals to False Athority
317
1
Dogmatism
318
1
Moral Equivalence
319
1
Ad Hominem Arguments
319
1
Fallacies of Logical Argument
320
1
Hasty Generalization
320
1
Faulty Causality
321
1
Begging the Question
321
1
Equivocation
322
1
Non Sequitur
323
1
Faulty Analogy
324
2
Respond
324
2
Intellectual Proptery
326
8
Recognizing Plagiarism
328
1
Cultural Contexts for Argument
328
1
Acknowledging Your use of Sources
329
1
Acknowledging Collaboration
329
1
Using Copyrighted Internet Sources
330
2
Crediting Sources in Arguments
332
2
Respond
332
2
Assessing and Using Sources
334
8
Assessing Sources
334
1
Print Sources
334
1
Electronic Sources
335
1
Field Research
336
1
Using Sources
337
1
Signal Words and Introductions
337
1
Quotations
338
1
Paraphrases
339
1
Summaries
340
2
Respond
340
2
Documenting Sources
342
27
MLA Style
343
1
In-Text Citations
343
4
Explanatory and Bibliographic Notes
347
1
List of Works Cited
347
10
APA Style
357
1
In-Text Citations
357
2
Content Notes
359
1
List of References
360
9
Respond
367
2
PART 6 ARGUMENTS
369
390
Mirror, Mirror . . . Images and the Media
371
65
Stereotypes in Media and Pop Culture
373
2
What are the implications of a bilingual Chihuahua selling tacos? Of Jar Jar Binks having dreads? Of the fact that father rarely knows best on TV sitcoms? This cluster of arguments invites you to decide whether media stereotypes matter and why.
Fu Manchu on Naboo
375
4
John Leo
Able to Laugh at Their People, Not Just Cry for Them
379
4
James Sterngold
The Exaggeration of Despair
383
2
Sherman Alexie
Sitcom Dads Rarely Know Best, Study of TV Laments
385
3
John Levesque
Shot on Ethnic Grounds and Side Streets
388
3
John Anderson
Taco Bell and Latino Stereotypes
391
4
Maria Martin
Who's the Fairest of Them All?
395
2
If the media function as a mirror that reflects ``the fairest of us all,'' what sorts of bodies appear there what sorts don't, and what might the consequences of this situation be?
It Begins
397
1
P. Byrnes
Study Finds TV Alters Fiji Girls' View of Body
398
3
Erica Goode
The Culture of Thin Bites Fiji
401
3
Ellen Goodman
``Peopl of Size'' Gather to Promote Fat Acceptance
404
4
Carey Goldberg
One Picture Is Worth a Thousand Diets
408
8
W. Charisse Goodman
Cutting Edge
416
6
Janice Turner
Men Seeking Cosmetic Surgery: Two Women Give Their Views
Why Shouldn't the Epidermally Challenged Get Help?
422
3
Angela Neustatter
Men Should Have Better Things to Do
422
3
Louisa Young
Suck Out Your Gut
425
3
Sandy Naiman
Turning Boys into Girls
428
4
Michelle Cottle
Selling Men's Underwear across the Decades
432
4
What's Public? What's Private?
436
42
Point/Counterpoint: They Know What You're Buying
Point: Internet Target Marketing Threatens Consumer Privacy
438
4
Russ Cobb
Counterpoint: Paranoid Privacy Hawks Don't Realize How Good they've Got It
Rohn Wynar
Divinity and Pornography
442
6
Dennis Prager
Stripped of More than My Clothes
448
3
Daria MonDesire
Bumper-Sticker Bravado
451
3
Michael Perry
Who's Watching?
454
2
A cluster of arguments looking at how Americans decry the loss of privacy even as we become more exhibitionistic and voyeuristic than ever. What's the URL for your webcam?
Look at Me! Leave Me Alone!
456
8
Joshua Gamson
Why I Star in My Own Truman Show
464
3
Jennifer Ringley
My Taxicab Confession
467
4
Jennifer Felten
Here Comes the Bride
471
2
Cathy Guisewite
The Accountability Matrix
473
5
David Brin
Time Off, Time Out
478
57
Grappling with the Implications of Title IX
480
2
What has Title IX achieved and not achieved with regard to gender equity in college sports? This cluster of arguments makes clear the final score is not yet in.
The Joy of Women's Sports
482
7
Ruth Conniff
Colleges Consider Fairness of Cutting Men's Teams to Comply with Title IX
489
5
Welch Suggs
Dropping Men's Teams to Comply with Title IX
494
3
Peter Monaghan
Preferences for Women Hurting Athletic Programs for Males
497
5
Kate O'Bierne
Despite the Positive Rhetoric about Women's Sports, Female Athletes Face a Culture of Sexual Harassment
502
4
Leslie Heywood
Four Cartoons About the Women's World Cup
I Take It We Got the Account
506
1
Marisa Acocella
Funny How You Had No Interest Until. . .
506
1
Chris Britt
That's Right--Get Used to It.
507
1
Gary Markstein
Scott Stantis, Goal!
507
2
Havin' a Good Time, or Just Chasin' the Benjamins?
509
2
What is the role of profit in movies, TVm and college athletics? Does it matter that companies pay to have their products appear in a moive? When college sports are ``sold,'' who profits--and does anyone lose?
Product Placement in Movies--Is It Really So Bad?
511
2
Shinan Govani
Getting Product Placed in Film and TV
513
6
Julia Fein Azoulay
Bad as They Wanna Be
519
7
Thad Williamson
The Cost of Hoop Dreams
526
3
William Hytche
Business Postures to Name New Team
529
2
Becky Yerak
X Games
531
4
Neva Chonin
Who Owns What?
535
42
Who Owns the Body and Its Parts?
537
2
Have you ever thought of your body as property--or considered that your genes, embryos, organs, and remains can be bought, sold, patented, and traded? As this cluster of readings makes clear, the question of who owns the body is anything but simple.
Lambs to the Gene Market
539
7
John Vidual
John Carvel
Weighing the Right to Own an Embryo
546
4
Mike McKee
Plan Would Alter Region for Organ Sharing
550
3
Steven Walters
Marilynn Marchione
Straits Times (Singapore), Organ Donor Drive by Muslim Group
553
3
A Long Journey Home
556
3
James Bandler
Ancestors Return Home
559
3
Miguel Navrot
Who Owns Words?
562
2
Can words and ideas be``owned''? If so. who owns ``I Have a Dream''? And how do you feel knowing that someone else could own your next good idea?
Who Will Own Your Next Good Idea?
564
6
Charles C. Mann
Intellectual Property in April 2000
570
1
Jack Ziegler
Areuing about the Ownership of ``I Have a Dream''
571
6
King's Speech
571
2
Bill Rankin
Kings Don't Own Words
573
1
Margaret Curtis
Who Owns Dr. King's Words?
574
1
Ellen Goodman
Promoting an Extreme Case of Sharing
575
2
Thomas Burnett
Language (s) and Identities
577
52
Chicago Women's Club, Pledge for Children
579
2
If Only We All Spoke Two Languages
581
3
Ariel Dorfman
Mute in an English-Only World
584
5
Change-rae Lee
Mother Tongue
589
6
Amy Tan
Teachers' Classroom Strategies Should Recognize That Men and Women Use Language Differently
595
7
Deborah Tannen
Hip Unchecked
602
2
Steve Rushin
The Ebonics Debates
604
2
What should the recent Ebonics debates teach us about language and identitynot just that of African Americans, but of all of us? As this cluster of readings demonstrates, matters of language and identity are inseparable.
Two Cartoons about the Ebonics Debates
Standard English/Ebonics
606
1
Chris Britt
A New Ghetto
607
1
Jim Borgman
Say What? Watch Your Language
608
3
James Hill
Office Jargon: Language or Dialect?
611
2
Ted Rall
Defining Who We Are in Society
613
5
David D. Troutt
I Has a Dream
618
2
Suite for Ebony and Phonics
620
7
John Rickford
Sho 'Nuff
627
2
Garry Trudeau
Beliefs and Stances
629
65
Religious Beliefs in the Public Arena
631
2
It's clear that many Americans understand the First Amendment to guarantee freedom of religion--not freedom from religion. But whatroles should faith and religious belief play in American public life?
Non Sequitur: Complete Tolerance
633
2
Wiley Miller
Join Hands across the Divide of Faith
635
4
Cardinal Francis Arinze
A Little Matter of Faith
639
2
Leonard Pitts
Four B.C. Cartoons with a Christian Theme
641
3
Johnny Hart
A Hindu Renaissance
644
5
Deborah Kovach Caldwell
An Open Letter to My Christian Friends
649
5
Ed Madden
Journey toward Wholeness: Reflections of a Lesbian Rabbi
654
7
La Escondida
Me? Apologize for Slavery?
661
5
Gordon Marino
this cluster of arguments considers whether the views of conservatives can he heard on American campuses today.
666
5
Martin Luther King Jr. I Have a Dream
Free Speech on Campus: Can Conservative Views Be Heard?
671
2
By examining in detail the night Ward Connerly was shouted down on one college campus
Anticipating Ward Connerly's Visit
Connerly Is an Enemy of Civil Rights
673
1
Carl Villarreal
Daily Texan Editors, Free Speech for Both Sides
673
4
Connerly Booed at Talk
677
3
Laura Offenbacher
What Happened?
Daily Texan Editors, Waste of Time
680
1
Nothing Gained without Respect
680
4
Brian Winter
Daily Texan Readers Respond
Poor Discourse
684
1
Michael Lebold
Hey AROC You Can't Hide
684
1
Donny Lucas
AROC Responds
685
1
David Hill
Disclaimer
685
1
M. Michael Sharlot
No Insight
685
2
Adam Dick
How Leftists ``Debate''
687
3
Jeff Jacoby
News from the Ladies' Room
690
4
Megan Elizabeth Murray
Technology Redefining the Meaning of Life
694
65
Conception and Birth
696
2
$50,000 for eggs from a tall athletic coed with high SATs? This cluster of arguments examines some of the ways technology is changing the terms of public debates and private decisions about matters of conception and birth.
Women's Capital Corporation, If Plan A Fails, Go to Plan B
698
2
Two Ads Soliciting Egg Donors
700
2
$50,000 Offered to Tall, Smart Egg Donor
702
3
Gina Kolata
An Ad for Smart Eggs Spawns Ethics Uproar
705
2
David Lefer
New Technology Allows Couples to Choose Gender of Child
707
5
Bob Edwards
Christopher Joyce
Death and Dying
712
2
What does it mean to die with dignity in light of technological advances in medicine and social movements encouraging hospice care or some form of physician-assisted suicide as alternatives to the biomedical model of dying?
The Good Death
714
9
Marilyn Webb
Should Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legalized? Yes!
723
6
Faye Girsh
Hospice, Not Hemlock
729
7
Joe Loconte
The Long Goodbye
736
10
Alicia Shepard
Evening Lasting as Long as Life
746
3
Cyrus Cassells
The Oregon Death with Dignity Act
749
10
Glossary
759
14
Index
773