Timothy W. Crusius,
Southern Methodist U. Carolyn E. Channell,
Southern Methodist U.
ISBN: 0077592204 Copyright year: 2015
Feature Summary
Feature: A dedicated emphasis on the contexts of argument examines how the circumstances surrounding arguments motivate their authors and shape their content.
Feature: A complete chapter focuses on reading and writing about visual arguments, including an 8-page full-color insert of images for analysis, helping students analyze visuals and appropriately use visuals as arguments.
Feature: Comprehensive coverage on avoiding plagiarism helps students better understand how to draw on and synthesize sources in their work, featuring detailed coverage and examples of summarizing, paraphrasing and quoting from sources.
Feature: Thorough coverage of fallacies in a dedicated appendix encourages students to understand the rhetorical underpinnings of fallacies--why they are used by certain rhetoricians, and why they are inappropriate in most forms of academic discourse.
Feature: Blackboard Integration. All the content of Connect Composition Plus Essentials 3.0 – writing instruction, readings, assignments, digital handbook–is integrated with the Blackboard (TM) course management system.
2015