Chapter 8: Analyzing Arguments
CHAPTER 8Analyzing Arguments
CONNECT: How does an argument get your attention? 5g on written-word texts, 8d, 17b on presentations
CREATE: Write or record a brief analysis of how a text you are reading appeals to its intended audience.
REFLECT: Respond to a rhetorical analysis by student writer Milena Ateyea.
IN ADVERTISEMENTS, news stories, textbooks, reports, and media of all kinds, language competes for our attention and argues for our agreement. Since argument so pervades all our lives, you need to be able to recognize and use it effectively—and to question your own arguments as well as those put forth by others.