Creating America: Reading and Writing Arguments

by Ann Watters and Joyce Moser

Designed for Writing/Composition courses--especially those with a focus on argument and/or research--this reader/rhetoric emphasizes the argumentative strategies students need to analyze and write... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130918423
• ISBN13: 9780130918420
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 6 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A solid American argument reader

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.

Great anthology!

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.