The Aims of Argument: A Text and Reader with Connect Access Card for Connect Composition Essentials

by Carolyn Channell and Timothy Crusius

Aims of Argument , a comprehensive text for teaching argument, recognizes that people argue with a range of purposes in mind: to inquire, to convince, to persuade, and to negotiate. It offers a clear, logical learning sequence rather than merely a collection of assignments: inquiry is the search for truth, what we call an earned opinion, which then becomes the basis of efforts to convince others to accept our earned opinions. Case-making, the essence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1259656187
• ISBN13: 9781259656187
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Grade Range: Postsecondary