Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy
The Critical Citizen's Guide to Argumentative Rhetoric
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2005
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-59451-084-7 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-59451-084-7 (ISBN)
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Addresses the need for college students to develop critical reading, writing, and thinking skills for self-defence in the contentious arena of American civic rhetoric. Offering a reconception of composition theory, this title presents a comprehensive perspective on American public discourse and practical methods for its analysis.
'Lazere's [book] is heaven-sent and will provide a crucial link in the chain of understanding how conflicts are structured and, most importantly, how they can be rationally addressed - a healthy antidote to the scepticism that has become so pervasive in academic life.' Alan Hausman, Hunter College This innovative book addresses the need for college students to develop critical reading, writing, and thinking skills for self-defence 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 for rhetorical analysis.
'Lazere's [book] is heaven-sent and will provide a crucial link in the chain of understanding how conflicts are structured and, most importantly, how they can be rationally addressed - a healthy antidote to the scepticism that has become so pervasive in academic life.' Alan Hausman, Hunter College This innovative book addresses the need for college students to develop critical reading, writing, and thinking skills for self-defence 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 for rhetorical analysis.
Donald Lazere is Professor Emeritus at California Polytechnic State University and is the editor of American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives.
Acknowledgments, Preface to Teachers (and Curious Students), Part I: Preliminaries, Part II: Attaining an Open Mind: Critical Thinking and Argumentative Rhetoric, Part III: Thinking Critically About the Rhetoric of Politics and Mass Media, Part IV: Deception Detection, Part V: Putting It All Together in a Long Paper, Glossary of Rhetorical and Critical Thinking Terms, Works Cited, Index
| Verlagsort | New York |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 210 x 280 mm |
| Gewicht | 1179 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik |
| ISBN-10 | 1-59451-084-9 / 1594510849 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-59451-084-7 / 9781594510847 |
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