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Teaching Argument in the Composition Course

First  Edition©2002 Timothy Barnett

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This ancillary offers a range of perspectives, from Aristotle to the present day, on argument and on teaching argument. The 28 readings — many of them classic works in the field present essential insights and practical information for instructors using any of Bedford/St. Martin’s argument texts and readers.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: MAJOR THEORIES OF ARGUMENTATION

1 Some Classical Influences on Argument

Aristotle
From Rhetoric, Books I and II

Roger C. Aden
The Enthymeme as Postmodern Argument Form: Condensed, Mediated Argument, Then and Now

Barbara Warnick
Judgment, Probability, and Aristotle’s Rhetoric

Jeanne Fahnestock and Marie Secor
The Stases in Scientific and Literary Argument

James Kastely
From Formalism to Inquiry: A Model of Argument in Antigone

2 Argument in the Twentieth Century

ROGERIAN ARGUMENT

Richard E. Young, Alton L. Becker, Kenneth L. Pike, and Carl R. Rogers
From Rhetoric: Discovery and Change, with Communication: Its Blocking and Its Facilitation

James S. Baumlin
Persuasion, Rogerian Rhetoric, and Imaginative Play

STEPHEN TOULMIN’S PHILOSOPHY OF ARGUMENT

Stephen Toulmin
From The Uses of Argument

THE NEW RHETORIC

Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca
From The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation

Alan Gross
A Theory of the Rhetorical Audience: Reflections on Chaim Perelman

ARGUMENTATION AND RACE, CLASS, GENDER, AND CULTURE

Catherine E. Lamb
Other Voices, Different Parties: Feminist Responses to Argument

Julie Lindquist
Class Ethos and the Politics of Inquiry: What the Barroom Can Teach Us about the Classroom

Karen Redfield
Opening the Composition Classroom to Storytelling: Respecting Native American Students’ Use of Rhetorical Strategies

Gary Layne Hatch
Logic in the Black Folk Sermon: The Sermons of C. L. Franklin

Fan Shen
The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to Learning English Composition

Kevin Michael DeLuca
Unruly Arguments: The Body Rhetoric of Earth First!, ACT UP, and Queer Nation

ARGUMENT IN THE AGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

R. Allen Harris
Assent, Dissent, and Rhetoric in Science

Joseph Janangelo
Joseph Cornell and the Artistry of Composing Persuasive Hypertexts

PART TWO: TEACHING ARGUMENT


3 Teaching Argument in the English Class

Doug Brent
Rogerian Rhetoric: Ethical Growth through Alternative Forms of Argumentation

A. E. B. Coldiron
Refutatio as a Prewriting Exercise

Richard Fulkerson
Technical Logic, Comp-Logic, and the Teaching of Writing

Robin Muksian-Schutt
Starkweather and Smith: Using "Contact Zones" to Teach Argument

Mariolina Salvatori
The "Argument of Reading" in the Teaching of Composition

Patrick J. Slattery
The Argumentative, Multiple-Source Paper: College Students Reading, Thinking, and Writing about Divergent Points of View

Gail Stygall
Toulmin and the Ethics of Argument Fields: Teaching Writing and Argument


4 Teaching Argument across the Curriculum


Craig Kallendorf and Carol Kallendorf
The Figures of Speech, Ethos, and Aristotle: Notes toward a Rhetoric of Business Communication

Phyllis Lassner
Feminist Responses to Rogerian Argument

Jean-François Rouet, M. Anne Britt, Robert A. Mason ,and Charles A. Perfetti
Using Multiple Sources of Evidence to Reason about History
Bibliography

Timothy Barnett