Teaching Arguments

No matter where students' lives lead after graduation, one of the most essential tools we can teach them is how to comprehend, analyze, and respond to arguments. Students need to know how writers' and speakers' choices are shaped by elements of the rhetorical situation, including audience, occasion, and purpose.

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Fletcher is a professor of English at California State University, Monterey Bay. Before joining the faculty at CSUMB, she taught high school English for more than ten years in Southern California. She is the author of Teaching Arguments: Rhetorical Comprehension, Critique, and Response (2015, Stenhouse). Klappentext No matter where students' lives lead after graduation, one the most essential tools we can teach them is how to comprehend, analyse, and respond to arguments. In Teaching Arguments, Jennifer Fletcher provides engaging classroom activities, writing prompts, graphic organisers, and student samples to help students at all levels read, write, listen, speak, and think rhetorically. Zusammenfassung No matter where students' lives lead after graduation, one of the most essential tools we can teach them is how to comprehend, analyze, and respond to arguments. Students need to know how writers' and speakers' choices are shaped by elements of the rhetorical situation, including audience, occasion, and purpose. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Starting with Open-Minded Inquiry; Chapter 2: From Comprehension to Critique; Chapter 3: Fostering a Deeper Understanding of the Occasion; Chapter 4: Fostering a Deeper Understanding of Audience; Chapter 5: Fostering a Deeper Understanding of Purpose; Chapter 6: Analyzing and Integrating Ethos, Pathos, and Logos; Chapter 7: Aristotle's Guide to Becoming a Good Student

Autorentext

Jennifer Fletcher is a professor of English at California State University, Monterey Bay. Before joining the faculty at CSUMB, she taught high school English for more than ten years in Southern California. She is the author of Teaching Arguments: Rhetorical Comprehension, Critique, and Response (2015, Stenhouse).

Klappentext

No matter where students' lives lead after graduation, one the most essential tools we can teach them is how to comprehend, analyse, and respond to arguments. In Teaching Arguments, Jennifer Fletcher provides engaging classroom activities, writing prompts, graphic organisers, and student samples to help students at all levels read, write, listen, speak, and think rhetorically.

Zusammenfassung
No matter where students' lives lead after graduation, one of the most essential tools we can teach them is how to comprehend, analyze, and respond to arguments. Students need to know how writers' and speakers' choices are shaped by elements of the rhetorical situation, including audience, occasion, and purpose.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Starting with Open-Minded Inquiry; Chapter 2: From Comprehension to Critique; Chapter 3: Fostering a Deeper Understanding of the Occasion; Chapter 4: Fostering a Deeper Understanding of Audience; Chapter 5: Fostering a Deeper Understanding of Purpose; Chapter 6: Analyzing and Integrating Ethos, Pathos, and Logos; Chapter 7: Aristotle's Guide to Becoming a Good Student