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Teaching Arguments: Rhetorical Comprehension, Critique, and Response 1st Edition

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No matter wherestudents' 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. In Teaching Arguments: Rhetorical Comprehension, Critique, and Response, Jennifer Fletcher provides teachers with engaging classroom activities, writing prompts, graphic organizers, and student samples to help students at all levels read, write, listen, speak, and think rhetorically.Fletcher believes that, with appropriate scaffolding and encouragement, all students can learn a rhetorical approach to argument and gain access to rigorous academic content. Teaching Arguments opens the door and helps them pay closer attention to the acts of meaning around them, to notice persuasive strategies that might not be apparent at first glance. When we analyze and develop arguments, we have to consider more than just the printed words on the page. We have to evaluate multiple perspectives; the tension between belief and doubt; the interplay of reason, character, and emotion; the dynamics of occasion, audience, and purpose; and how our own identities shape what we read and write. Rhetoric teaches us how to do these things.Teaching Arguments will help students learn to move beyond a superficial response to texts so they can analyze and craft sophisticated, persuasive arguments - a major cornerstone for being not just college-and career-ready but ready for the challenges of the world.

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The book synthesizes concepts from classical rhetoric, modern rhetoric, Common Core State Standards, and Jennifer’s teaching experience and wisdom. It manages to be both academic and personal, with practical teaching strategies on every page…Reading this book is like accompanying the author on a personal intellectual journey through rhetoric and teaching, a journey on which you learn, grow, and pick up handouts that you can use on Monday morning. I recommend it highly.
Teaching Text Rhetorically Oct 2016

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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).

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 17, 2015
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1571109994
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1571109996
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.36 x 0.65 x 9.29 inches
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ Kindergarten - 12
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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.

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Customers find the book provides resources with lesson ideas for the classroom and is supported by the way they teach argument writing. The writing style receives mixed feedback, with some customers finding it well written while others report illegible illustrations.

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Customers appreciate the teaching strategies in the book, which provides resources with lesson ideas for the classroom and supports argument writing instruction.

"...There is also an appendix with resources for classroom lessons. The book has changed the way I teach analysis of texts in the classroom...." Read more

"...this book, because it is clear throughout the book the Fletcher is an educator at heart and everything comes back to THE STUDENTS, and how we can..." Read more

"Easy, practical, fun ideas for lessons and activities that would appeal to a diverse student body." Read more

"This may be the best book I've found on teaching argument--and I've read a lot. As a new AP Lang teacher, I was desperate for help...." Read more

9 customers mention "Writing style"6 positive3 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the writing style of the book, with some finding it well written while others report illegible illustrations.

"The book is written in comprehensible chapters that explain the concepts and provides resources with lesson ideas for the classroom...." Read more

"...Fletcher's book is easy to understand with great practice. Highly recommend!" Read more

"...Any image that included text written by hand was completely illegible." Read more

"The author's hard work, clear writing, and intriguing teaching strategies are ill-served by her publisher's blurry and illegible illustrations...." Read more

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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2019
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    The book is written in comprehensible chapters that explain the concepts and provides resources with lesson ideas for the classroom. Each chapter introduces new concepts that build on information previously stated in the book, but does not need to be read in sequential order. There is also an appendix with resources for classroom lessons.
    The book has changed the way I teach analysis of texts in the classroom.
    As a high school English teacher and AP language and composition teacher the book is a wonderful resource.
    I would highly recommend this book and it should be required reading for new teachers.
    7 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2019
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    I purchased this book because I was looking for ANYTHING that would help me understand the complexities of rhetoric, and how to teach it to students. I was taking on AP Language and Composition for the first time, and felt really underwater from the get go. This book is chock-full of strategies to help students understand complex reading and writing around rhetoric. I took away so much from this book, because it is clear throughout the book the Fletcher is an educator at heart and everything comes back to THE STUDENTS, and how we can help them see complex concepts more clearly, and therefor engage with them more fully!

    If you are a teacher like me, and always question whether a book is worth the price tag -- if it will give you enough to actually use in classroom -- do not fret with this book! It is well worth your hard earned $$
    11 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2016
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2023
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    Easy, practical, fun ideas for lessons and activities that would appeal to a diverse student body.
  • Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2015
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    This may be the best book I've found on teaching argument--and I've read a lot. As a new AP Lang teacher, I was desperate for help. We use The Language of Composition by Shea & Scanlon as our class text, but the argument unit is eh. I relied heavily on Teaching Argument Writing by Hillocks, which is also a great book, but I think more applicable to MS or early HS. Fletcher's book is easy to understand with great practice. Highly recommend!
    13 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2018
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    I am a high school composition and literature teacher. This text was recommended by a friend, and I immediately looked it up on Amazon. I found myself revising lesson plans for the coming week after reading from the "look inside" excerpts, so I bought it. This text ups the rigor for language arts students -- something that is truly needed in U.S. high schools. If you are a teacher, you will probably appreciate what this text will contribute to your lessons and units.
    6 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2023
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    The author's hard work, clear writing, and intriguing teaching strategies are ill-served by her publisher's blurry and illegible illustrations. It's really too bad, and it detracts from the book's value.
    One person found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2021
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    I am beyond excited with the depth of this book. She digs deep into rhetoric and shows you HOW to teach critical thinking.
    I have 17 years experience in education, a plethora of books, and I can't put this one down.
    4 people found this helpful
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Great for teaching
    Reviewed in Canada on January 20, 2023
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    This is a very good book for teaching argumentation in post-secondary institutions. The book no only has explanations and examples of arguments and fallacies, but also activities which are interesting and fun for students. There are prompts for essay writing and an informative chapter on Aristotle's rhetoric.