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Contemporary & Classic Arguments

A Portable AnthologySecond Edition| ©2014 Sylvan Barnet; Hugo Bedau

In response to requests for briefer and less expensive argument readers, Contemporary & Classic Arguments offers an ample selection of readings in a compact size for less than half the price of full size books. Contemporary & Classic Arguments is flexibly organized into two ant...
In response to requests for briefer and less expensive argument readers, Contemporary & Classic Arguments offers an ample selection of readings in a compact size for less than half the price of full size books. Contemporary & Classic Arguments is flexibly organized into two anthologies that model an extensive range of argumentative writing. Adapted from the best-selling full-size argument text/reader Current Issues & Enduring Questions, it offers two brief chapters on analyzing and writing arguments, a provocative selection of contemporary arguments and casebooks to engage students with some of today’s most pressing topics, and a collection of classic essays that provide time-tested models of effective argument. Like other volumes in the Bedford/St. Martin’s popular series of Portable Anthologies and Portable Guides, Contemporary & Classic Arguments offers the series’ trademark combination of high quality and great value for teachers of writing and their cost-conscious students.
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Contemporary & Classic Arguments by Sylvan Barnet; Hugo Bedau - Second Edition, 2014 from Macmillan Student Store

A very affordable argument anthology with surprising depth

In response to requests for briefer and less expensive argument readers, Contemporary & Classic Arguments offers an ample selection of readings in a compact size for less than half the price of full size books. Contemporary & Classic Arguments is flexibly organized into two anthologies that model an extensive range of argumentative writing. Adapted from the best-selling full-size argument text/reader Current Issues & Enduring Questions, it offers two brief chapters on analyzing and writing arguments, a provocative selection of contemporary arguments and casebooks to engage students with some of today’s most pressing topics, and a collection of classic essays that provide time-tested models of effective argument. Like other volumes in the Bedford/St. Martin’s popular series of Portable Anthologies and Portable Guides, Contemporary & Classic Arguments offers the series’ trademark combination of high quality and great value for teachers of writing and their cost-conscious students.

Features

Compact and affordable. With an ample selection of 56 readings, Contemporary & Classic Arguments is only about half the size and less than half the price of full-size argument books for composition courses.

A reader with two anthologies provides range and flexibility.

  • An anthology of contemporary issues presents a range of standalone arguments on some of today’s most pressing cultural conversations as well as 8 in-depth casebooks on current topics such as student loan debt, immigration, and social media’s impact on our relationships with others.
  • An anthology of classic arguments, with landmark essays from Plato to the present, offers enduring models of argument for response and analysis.

    The support and apparatus students need. New chapters on analyzing and writing arguments introduce students to the elements of academic argument. Biographical notes and questions for critical thinking and writing accompany every selection.
  • New to This Edition

    35 provocative new readings (about two-thirds of the selections) on topics ranging from the purpose of college education to women in combat encourage students to think critically about the world they live in:

  • Sherri Turkle considers how technology has devalued the art of conversation.
  • Mark Bittman makes a case for taxing foods that are harmful to our health.
  • Alfred Edmond Jr. argues that employers are right to ask students to turnover their Facebook passwords when applying for jobs.

    Many more contemporary issues to challenge students. This edition features twice as many contemporary arguments on a greater range of topics to pique the interest of every student.

    Introductory chapters on analyzing and writing arguments familiarize students with the basic elements of argument and the process of writing argumentative essays for college.

  • Contemporary & Classic Arguments by Sylvan Barnet; Hugo Bedau - Second Edition, 2014 from Macmillan Student Store

    Contemporary & Classic Arguments

    Second Edition| ©2014

    Sylvan Barnet; Hugo Bedau

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    Contemporary & Classic Arguments by Sylvan Barnet; Hugo Bedau - Second Edition, 2014 from Macmillan Student Store

    Contemporary & Classic Arguments

    Second Edition| 2014

    Sylvan Barnet; Hugo Bedau

    Table of Contents

    Preface

    *PART ONE: ANALYZING AND WRITING ARGUMENTS

    *1 ANALYZING ARGUMENTS

    What Is Argument?

    Analyzing an Argument

         Examining the Author’s Thesis

         Examining the Author’s Purpose

         Examining the Author’s Methods

         Examining the Author’s Persona,

         Examining Persona and Intended Audience,

    A Checklist for Analyzing an Author’s Audience

    A Checklist for Analyzing a Text

    An Argument, Its Elements, and a Student’s Analysis of the Argument

         *Nicholas D. Kristof, For Environmental Balance, Pick Up a Rifle

         *Betsy Swinton (student essay) , Tracking Kristof

    An Analysis of the Student’s Analysis

    A Checklist for Writing an Argument

    *2 WRITING ARGUMENTS

    Planning, Drafting, and Revising an Argument

    Getting Ideas: Argument as an Instrument of Inquiry

    The Thesis, or Main Point

    A Checklist for a Thesis Statement

    Imagining an Audience

    The Audience as Collaborator

    A Checklist for Imagining an Audience

    The Title

    The Opening Paragraphs

    Organizing and Revising the Body of the Essay

    The Ending

    Two Uses of an Outline

    A Checklist for Organizing an Argument

    Tone and the Writer’s Persona

    We, One, or I?

    Avoiding Sexist Language

    A Checklist for Attending to the Needs of the Audience

    A Peer Review Checklist for a Draft of an Argument

    PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY ARGUMENTS

    *3 CONTEMPORARY ARGUMENTS

    *Mark Bittman, Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables

    *Harlan Coben The Undercover Parent

    *Alfred Edmond Jr., Why Asking For a Job Applicant’s Facebook Password Is Fair Game

    *Nora Ephron, The Boston Photographs

    *Gerard Jones, Violent Media Is Good for Kids

    *Charles R. Lawrence III, On Racist Speech

    *Jena McGregor, Military Women in Combat: Why Making It Official Matters

    *James E. McWilliams, The Locavore Myth: Why Buying from Nearby Farmers Won’t Save the Planet

    *Ronald Takaki, The Harmful Myth of Asian Superiority

    *Sherry Turkle, The Flight From Conversation

    *George F. Will, Being Green at Ben and Jerry’s

    *James Q. Wilson, Just Take Away Their Guns

    PART THREE: CASEBOOKS ON CONTEMPORARY ISSUES

    *4 College Education: What Is Its Purpose?

    *Andrew Delbanco, Three Reasons College Still Matter

    *Alina Tugend, Vocation or Exploration? Pondering the Purpose of College

    *Mark Edmundson, Education’s Hungry Hearts

    *Marty Nemko, America’s Most Overrated Product: The Bachelor’s Degree

    5 The Death Penalty: Is It Ever Justified?

    Edward I. Koch, Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment Affirms Life

    David Bruck, The Death Penalty

    Helen Prejean, Executions Are Too Costly—Morally

    6 Drugs: Should Their Sale and Use Be Legalized?

    William Bennett, Drug Policy and the Intellectuals

    Milton Friedman, There’s No Justice in the War on Drugs

    Elliott Currie, Toward a Policy on Drugs

    *7 Facebook: How Has Social Networking Changed How We Relate to Others?

    *Lauren Tarshis, Is Facebook Making You Mean?

    *Steven Levy, Facebook Reset

    *Jenna Wortham, It’s Not About You, Facebook. It’s About Us

    *Josh Rose, How Social Media Is Having a Positive Impact On Our Culture

    *8 Genetic Modification of Human Beings: Is It Acceptable?

    *Ronald M. Green, Building Babies from the Genes Up

    *Richard Hayes, Genetically Modified Humans? No Thanks

    *9 Immigration: What Is To Be Done?

    *David Cole, Five Myths about Immigration

    *Barry R. Chiswick, The Worker Next Door

    *John Tierney, Angels in America

    *Victor David Hanson, Our Brave New World of Immigration

    *10 Service: Should the United States Require Young People to Perform Public Service?

    *Peter Levine, The Case for "Service"

    *Thomas E. Ricks, Let’s Draft Our Kids

    *Dave Eggers, Serve or Fail

    *11 Student Loans: Should Some Indebtedness Be Forgiven?

    *Robert Applebaum, Debate on Student Loan Debt Doesn’t Go Far Enough

    *Kayla Webley, Is Forgiving Student Loan Debt a Good Idea?

    *Justin Wolfer, Forgive Student Loans? Worst Idea Ever

    PART FOUR: CLASSIC ARGUMENTS

    12 CLASSIC ARGUMENTS

    Plato, Crito

    Plato, The Myth of the Cave

    Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal

    Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

    George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant

    Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women

    Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream

    Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

    Judy Brady, I Want a Wife

    Peter Singer, Animal Liberation

    Garrett Hardin, Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor

     

    Index

    Contemporary & Classic Arguments by Sylvan Barnet; Hugo Bedau - Second Edition, 2014 from Macmillan Student Store

    Contemporary & Classic Arguments

    Second Edition| 2014

    Sylvan Barnet; Hugo Bedau

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    Sylvan Barnet

    Sylvan Barnet was a professor of English and former director of writing at Tufts University. His several texts on writing and his numerous anthologies for introductory composition and literature courses have remained leaders in their field through many editions. His titles, with Hugo Bedau, include Current Issues and Enduring Questions; Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing; and From Critical Thinking to Argument.


    Hugo Bedau

    Hugo Bedau was a professor of philosophy at Tufts University and served as chair of the philosophy department and chair of the university’s committee on College Writing. An internationally respected expert on the death penalty, and on moral, legal, and political philosophy, he wrote or edited a number of books on these topics. He co-authored, with Sylvan Barnet, of Current Issues and Enduring Questions; Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing; and From Critical Thinking to Argument.

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