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Title Perspectives on written argument / edited by Deborah P. Berrill
Published Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press, [1996]
©1996

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Description viii, 279 pages ; 24 cm
Series Written language series
Written language series.
Contents 1. Argument as a Primary Act of Mind / Andrew Wilkinson -- 2. Discovering the Ripening Functions of Argument: Using Concepts From the New Rhetoric for Analysis and Response to Student Argumentation / W. Mark Lynch -- 3. Teaching and Learning Argumentative Writing in the Middle School Years / Marion Crowhurst -- 4. Writers, Readers, and Arguments / Trudy Govier -- 5. Genres of Argument and Arguments as Genres / Aviva Freedman -- 6. Fullness and Sound Reasoning: Argument and Evaluation in a University Content Course / Pat Currie -- 7. The Nature of Argument in Peer Dialogue Journals / Chris M. Anson and Richard Beach -- 8. Reframing Argument from the Metaphor of War / Deborah P. Berrill -- 9. Argument as Transformation: A Pacific Framing of Conflict, Community, and Learning / Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo -- 10. The Background to Argument in the Far East / Robert E. Carter
11. Rescuing the Failed, Filed Away, and Forgotten: African Americans and Eurocentricity in Academic Argument / Dorothy Perry Thompson -- 12. Opening the Composition Classroom to Storytelling: Respecting Native American Students' Use of Rhetorical Strategies / Karen A. Redfield -- 13. Other Voices, Different Parties: Feminist Responses to Argument / Catherine E. Lamb
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Study and teaching.
Report writing -- Study and teaching.
Author Berrill, Deborah.
LC no. 96024443
ISBN 1572730382 (cl)
1572730390 (ppb)