Shape of Reason, The: Argumentative Writing in College - Softcover

Gage, John T.

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9780023400414: Shape of Reason, The: Argumentative Writing in College
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ISBN 10: 0023400412 ISBN 13: 9780023400414
Publisher: Macmillan Coll Div, 1991

Synopsis

This brief rhetoric of argument teaches critical reading, informal reasoning, and writing as reasoned inquiry, and now features a mini-anthology of arguments on civic issues. The Shape of Reason emphasizes the enthymeme as the central basis for the invention and structure of arguments. This approach blends classical insights into rhetorical reasoning with contemporary understandings of the composing process as generative and organic, situated within discourse communities. The book helps to understand argument as inquiry, stressing the responsibility that writers have - to their audience and to their own ideas - in structuring arguments that earn their conclusions and in considering opposing arguments. For anyone interested in argumentative writing.

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Publisher
Macmillan Coll Div
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0023400412
ISBN 13 
9780023400414
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
290
Rating
  • 3.36 out of 5 stars
    33 ratings by Goodreads

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