Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Envision In Depth: Reading, Writing and Researching Arguments


Envision In Depth: Reading, Writing, and Researching Arguments 2nd Edition PDF Download Ebook. Christine Alfano and Alyssa O'Brien offer flexible, practical, and innovative topics to argument and research designed for students learning to write in today’s visual world.

It is a combined rhetoric and reader intended for composition courses focusing on argumentation and research-based writing. Taking contemporary culture as its central theme and context, this text is concerned with the fundamentals of analyzing and writing powerful, effective arguments. Students using this book will learn how to analyze and compose arguments, design and conduct research projects, and produce persuasive visual and oral presentations in response to over 100 contemporary arguments in a wide range of verbal and visual genres.

Students learn key rhetorical concepts such as attending to audience, understanding appeals and fallacies, practicing the canons of rhetoric, differentiating levels of decorum, and using branches of oratory. Over 100 reading selections represent the diversity of persuasive writing in contemporary culture.

This guide covers the widest range of genres in any argument reader, with examples of professional essays, scholarly articles, op-ed pieces, position papers, interviews, book chapters, graphic novels, cartoons, web pages, photo essays, personal essays, and multimedia texts. Students are thus encouraged to see that persuasion plays a vital role in the world, in both academic and public settings.

The text provides a great resource for any instructor who teaches persuasive writing. What makes this reader especially applicable is its focus on the written and the visual. The visual is seamlessly integrated. It’s not an afterthought. The framework that’s provided by the authors is especially important because it makes sure that students understand the connections among the various pieces discussed in the text.

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