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This concise, student-friendly rhetoric provides clear, highly practical advice for writing arguments, including the four most common types: factual, causal, evaluation, and recommendation. Structured around the three main phases of writing - focusing, supporting, and reviewing, For Argument's Sake helps students find and focus a claim, identify an audience, work through the support process, and then refine and polish their argument. Numerous sample arguments illustrate the principles and strategies including several pieces written by students. This edition features new coverage of conducting and evaluating electronic research and additional student samples.Mayberry, Katherine J. is the author of 'For Argument's Sake A Guide to Writing Effective Arguments', published 2001 under ISBN 9780321085047 and ISBN 0321085043.
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