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Developing Writers of Argument
Tools and Rules That Sharpen Student Reasoning
By: Michael W. Smith, Jon-Philip Imbrenda
eText | 22 December 2017 | Edition Number 1
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The ability to make effective arguments is not only necessary in students' academic lives, it's a transferable skill that's essential to students' future success as critical thinkers and contributing members of society.
But in the here and now, how do we engage students and ensure they understand argument writing's fundamental components? How do we take them from "Here's what I think" to "Here's what I think. Here's what makes me think that. And here's why it matters"?
This stunning, full-color book by Michael Smith and Jon-Philip Imbrenda shows the way, with ready-to-implement lessons that make argument writing topical and relevant. Students are first asked to form arguments about subjects that matter to them, and then to reflect on the structure of those arguments, a process that provides learners with valuable, reusable structural models.
- Throughout the book, the authors provide helpful instructional tools, including
- Literary, nonfiction, and author-created simulated texts that inspire different points of view
- Essential questions to create a context that rewards argumentation
- Lessons introducing students to the three essential elements of an argument—claim, data, and warrant—and how to make each effective
- Questioning probes, semantic differential scales, and other innovative instructional approaches
- Samples of writing from the authors' own students, and enlightening details on how this work informed the authors' subsequent teaching approach
Complete with guidance on applying the lessons' techniques in a broader, unit-wide context, Developing Writers of Argument offers a practical approach for instructing students in this crucial aspect of their lifelong development.
Industry Reviews
“Smith and Imbrenda care about deep and meaningful learning. In this book, they show how argument can be taught in ways that develop tremendous engagement and deep understanding through a process that is in service of critical literacy and social imagination and responsibility. There are a lot of books about argument out there. I’d argue that this one is the best and most transformative I’ve ever read. The ‘so what’ lessons on reasoning/warranting alone will transform your teaching of argument and of much else.”
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ISBN: 9781506394411
ISBN-10: 1506394418
Series: Corwin Literacy
Published: 22nd December 2017
Format: ePUB
Language: English
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc. (US)
Edition Number: 1
