SOROTI UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Welcome to the Granary of Knowledge
Argument / edited by Christy Desmet, Kathy Houff Speak, Deborah Church Miller.
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TextSeries: A Prentice Hall pocket readerPublication details: Upper Saddle River, N.J : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2005.Description: xi, 120 p. ; 22 cm. illISBN: - 0131895257
- 808.042/ 22 DES
- PE1431 .A73 2005
Contents:
1. Arguments about people and places: They knew but little / Wendell Berry ; The first cure / Black Elk (amanuensis John G. Neihardt) ; Grant and Lee : a study in contrasts / Bruce Catton ; Why I want a wife / Judy Brady ; We knew what glory was / Shirlee Taylor Haizlip ; Shooting and elephant / George Orwell -- 2. Arguments about politics, policy, and social change: Of girls and chicks / Francine Frank and Frank Ashen ; The man-made myth / Elaine Morgan ; Teaching resistance : the racial politics of mass media / bell hooks ; The obligation to endure / Rachel Carson ; Late night thoughts on listening the Mahler's Ninth symphony / Lewis Thomas ; A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift ; Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King Jr. -- 3. Reflecting argument as a process: How to tell a true war story / Tim O'Brien ; Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus / Francis P. Church ; The median isn't the message / Stephen Jay Gould ; Silent dancing / Judith Ortiz Cofer ; How to turn debate into dialogue / Deborah Tannen.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-120).
1. Arguments about people and places: They knew but little / Wendell Berry ; The first cure / Black Elk (amanuensis John G. Neihardt) ; Grant and Lee : a study in contrasts / Bruce Catton ; Why I want a wife / Judy Brady ; We knew what glory was / Shirlee Taylor Haizlip ; Shooting and elephant / George Orwell -- 2. Arguments about politics, policy, and social change: Of girls and chicks / Francine Frank and Frank Ashen ; The man-made myth / Elaine Morgan ; Teaching resistance : the racial politics of mass media / bell hooks ; The obligation to endure / Rachel Carson ; Late night thoughts on listening the Mahler's Ninth symphony / Lewis Thomas ; A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift ; Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King Jr. -- 3. Reflecting argument as a process: How to tell a true war story / Tim O'Brien ; Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus / Francis P. Church ; The median isn't the message / Stephen Jay Gould ; Silent dancing / Judith Ortiz Cofer ; How to turn debate into dialogue / Deborah Tannen.
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