Authors: Joyce P. Moser, Ann Watters
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book

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Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars

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Sales Rank: 73035

Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
Pages: 656
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1

ISBN: 0131443860
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.0427
EAN: 9780131443860
ASIN: 0131443860

Publication Date: July 25, 2004
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
This reader/rhetoric emphasizes the argumentative strategies readers need to analyze and write arguments. At the same time, it helps users see that Americans have always defined themselves and maintained a sense of unity—despite great diversity—through ongoing public debate about what America means. Selections reflect colonial times to the present, and include posters, photographs, advertisements, and court cases in addition to essays, poems, and stories that represent arguments in American culture, the art and craft of persuasion, writing essays, integrating research into writing, American dreams, justice and civil liberties, frontiers, war and violence, work and play, and family, identities. For those interested in argumentative and persuasive writing.

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars

More pseudo-intellectual liberal gobbledy-gook August 29, 2008
John R. Kenny (San Diego, CA United States)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

Once again, yet ANOTHER left-wing screed attempting to belittle and demean the history of America, reducing the U.S. to "male-dominated" and "racist" to our core. No wonder college grads hate this country, with this kind of c**p floating around.

3 out of 5 stars

Room for improvement April 13, 2005
Matt Hetling (Bethel, ME USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I have mixed feelings about this book. I strongly support the idea of presenting a broad range of arguments all related to one core issue, but I suppose I feel that this book didn't do a particularly good job at making that concept come to life.

Some of the topics, such as "Frontier," seem too broad to really stimulate much of a discussion, and also too rooted in history to have much of an application for opinions on modern issues. The layout and visuals are also not very well done, which will be a turnoff to the reluctant pupil.

That being said, there are many topics that are extremely relevant, such as war, family values, and civil liberties; these topics are illuminated by some great thinkers, such as Benjamin Franklin, Studs Terkel, and Gloria Steinem. There is also inclusion of some texts that you wouldn't think of as being centered around history or politics, such as an excerpt from "The Great Gatsby."

I haven't seen later editions, and I can only hope that they've improved upon this solid concept.

5 out of 5 stars

Great anthology! February 12, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I loved this anthology,partly because of the very useful introductory materials on arugment and partly because of the range of readings.The first four chapters of the book work as a good intro to writing essays, conducting research, and understanding arugment, and the rest of the book not only includes a great variety of readings, but also offers a number of visuals and student papers, both of which have gone over very well wtih my students.

5 out of 5 stars

A solid American argument reader February 12, 2004
alice (Portland)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This text covers a range of genres and eras. The pedagodical approach enables instructors and students to focus on the core issues of argument without getting lost in the terminology of some models (i.e., Toulmin). More visual materials would be helpful but the book does address visual rhetoric in a way that emphasizes argument.

2 out of 5 stars

Not the best anthology January 29, 2004
Melissa G. Lenos (Pittsburgh, PA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

Maybe I'm just down on anthologies in general, but I didn't have a lot of success in teaching this text. Although it successfully presents perspectives from a number of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, the questions provided with the texts were frequently inane and the texts themselves were often cut in awkward and inappropriate ways.

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