Workbook for Reading Argumentative Texts - Analytic Tools to Improve Understanding

his Workbook teaches the tools essential to analyzing and understanding the meaning of nonfiction texts that assert arguments.

List of contents

Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Reading Is Not a Spectator Sport
Chapter 3. Why Are You Reading?
Chapter 4. Arguments: A Closer Look
Chapter 5. Every Person Has a Skeleton, Every Argument Has a Structure
Chapter 6. What Does the Skeleton Look Like? Outlines and Summaries
Chapter 7. Ambiguity and Nonliteral Uses of Language
Chapter 8. Context Imparts Meaning
Chapter 9. The ABC's of Logic
Appendix I. Answer Key
Appendix II. Ramya Vijaya, Refugees don't undermine the US economy-they energize it.
Appendix III. William Deresiewicz, The Disadvantages of an Elite Education
Appendix IV. Carl J. Asszony, True meaning of July 4 is sacrifice
Appendix V. Martin Luther King, Jr., Antidotes for fear
Appendix VI. Trevor Burrus, It's Time to End Any Level of Federal Marijuana Prohibition

About the author

By James E. Scheuermann

Summary

his Workbook teaches the tools essential to analyzing and understanding the meaning of nonfiction texts that assert arguments.

Product details

• Authors: JAMES E SCHEUERMANN, James E. Scheuermann
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781475864731
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-6473-1
• No. of pages: 154
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; English, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: English language: reading & writing skills, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & Phonics, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Language Arts, argument;critical;informal logic;meaning;Rhetoric