Good writing : an argument rhetoric /
Good Writing, a textbook for first-year writing courses, teaches writing as social action. We teach our students that "good writers" aim to persuade audiences to think and act differently based on the writer's presentation of facts, claims, evidence and reasons. But many of us who tea...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2019].
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| Summary: | Good Writing, a textbook for first-year writing courses, teaches writing as social action. We teach our students that "good writers" aim to persuade audiences to think and act differently based on the writer's presentation of facts, claims, evidence and reasons. But many of us who teach writing are also committed to the idea that "good writing" is writing for the common good, writing that persuades others to think and act in ways that advance humanity. This textbook aims to develop good writers who produce good writing, by encouraging emerging writers to interrogate deeply their purpose and responsibility as writers. From the informative report that aims to persuade readers that its facts, observations, hypotheses and conclusions are comprehensive, valid and executed according to the ethics of its discipline, to the Op-Ed article laden with explicit claims and carefully selected support, writers make choices that ultimately determine the extent to which readers will accept, adopt and act on their arguments. This textbook helps students learn to acknowledge and inventory the choices available to them as writers while emphasizing the ethical valence of those choices. Good Writing presents argument as a powerful tool that comes with great responsibility because it is the primary means by which people lead others to change minds, and, in doing so, change society. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xxvii, 529 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780199947256 0199947252 |