Real writing modernizing the old school essay

High-school writing prompts often ask students to provide overly simplified responses to complicated issues, but a person's stance in the real world can rarely, if ever, be reduced to "agree or disagree." Arguments are complex, with more than two points of view and a range of evidence...

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Main Authors Nobis, Mitchell, Laird, Daniel, Nobis, Carrie, Reed, Dawn, Schulze, Dirk
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published New York The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 2016
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Edition1
Subjects
English language
English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching
Language arts (Secondary)
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ISBN9781475824797
1475824793
1475824785
9781475824780

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Table of Contents:
  • Real writing : modernizing the old school essay -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Living Essay: Reading Contemporary Essays -- Chapter 2 Exploring the Complex Gray Area -- Chapter 3 Civic Engagement and Responsible Argument in Digital Environments -- Chapter 4 Exploring Argument from Multimodal Sources -- Chapter 5 Creative Writing as Argument -- Chapter 6 The Real Work -- References -- Index -- About the Authors.