Methods of Argument: An Anthology of Readings [Paperback]

Countering the current climate of fake news and alternative facts, Methods of Argument: An Anthology of Readingsshowcases well-reasoned and well-supported arguments. The anthology's selections model an array of critical-thinking and writing techniques, covering both simple single-point and complex multi-point arguments.

Race and Identity
How to Tame a Wild Tongue, an excerpt Borderlands, Gloria Anzaldua
I Don't See Color: Then You Don't See Me!, Sam Louie
Two Ways to Belong in America, Bharati Mukherjee
A Black Man Ponders His Ability to Alter Public Space, Brent Staples
Filipineza Doesn't Mean Servant , Melissa R Sipin
Dinosaurs in the Hood, a poem, Danez Smith
Killing Like They Do in the Movies, Justin Reed

Technology and Media
'Tiny House Hunters' and the Shrinking American Dream, Roxane Gay
Be a Gamer, Save the World, Jane McGonigal
How Technology Hijacks People's-from a Magician and Google's Design Ethicist, Tristan Harris
The Information: How the Internet Gets Inside Us, Adam Gopnik
Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?, Stephen Marche
Pornography, Margaret Atwood

Gender Roles
The Picture for Men: Superhero or Slacker, Sameer Pandya
Chase & Sanborn coffee ad, #13
A New England Nun, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
What I've Learned from Men, Barbara Ehrenreich
An American Girl in Italy, a photograph, Ruth Orkin
The Fundamental Principle of a Republic, Anna Howard Shaw
Vindication of the Rights of Women, an excerpt, Mary Wollstonecraft
Cruel and Barbarous Treatment, Mary McCarthy

Higher Ground
Inaugural Address, January 1961, John F Kennedy
Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Four Freedoms, Franklin Roosevelt
Pappas v. Guiliani
Sonia Sotomayer, Shooting an Elephant
George Orwell
The Tyranny of the Majority, Lani Guinier

Ethics
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