This innovative textbook, for first-year English and more advanced composition and critical thinking courses, addresses the need for college students to develop critical reading, writing, and thinking skills for self-defense in the contentious arena of American civic rhetoric. In a groundbreaking reconception of composition theory, it presents a comprehensive critical perspective on American public discourse and practical methods for its analysis.
Exercises following the text sections and readings help students understand the ideological positions and rhetorical patterns that underlie opposing viewpoints in current controversies, such as the growing inequality of wealth in America and its impact on the finances of college students, as expressed in paired sets of readings from the political left and right. Widely debated issues of whether objectivity is possible and whether there is a liberal or conservative bias in news and entertainment media, as well as in education itself, are foregrounded as topics fo rhetorical analysis.

• ISBN: 1594510857
• ISBN-13: 9781594510854
• Author : Donald Lazere
• Language : English
• Format:  Paperback - Search for other formats
• Publication Date: 4/1/2005
• Publisher Imprint: Paradigm Publishers
• Price ($AUD): $107.95


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