Everything's an Argument with Readings (Cloth Text)
Ninth Edition ©2022
A streamlined argument guide plus provocative thematic reader, Everything’s an Argument with Readings helps students understand and analyze the arguments around them as well as create their own. Lucid explanations with contemporary examples cover classical rhetoric of oration through the mu...
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A streamlined argument guide plus provocative thematic reader, Everything’s an Argument with Readings helps students understand and analyze the arguments around them as well as create their own. Lucid explanations with contemporary examples cover classical rhetoric of oration through the multimodal rhetoric of today’s new media, with professional and student models of every type. Thoroughly updated with fresh new selections in both the guide and the reader, this edition of Everything’s an Argument captures the issues and images that matter to students today. New coverage of lateral reading teaches students to evaluate arguments effectively and quickly, especially online. Interactive tutorials offer students more support for critical reading in an engaging digital format within Achieve with Everything’s an Argument, now available with writing assignments, reading quizzes, analysis and reflection activities, and more.
"Everythings an Argument is in a class of its own. The range of topics and the depth of the treatment of each topic are very helpful in teaching students the process of writing. The variety of topics and the detailed attention paid to process in this book is commendable."
– Kolawole Olaiya, Anderson University
"Everything’s an Argument is one of the best argument textbooks that I have worked with. My students connected to the readings, and the examples and Respond questions were great!"
– Natalie Pleimann, North Lake College"Easy, clear, and straightforward –Everything’s an Argument is a perfect textbook for first-year composition classes. The readings are on timely and relevant topics and chosen with care."
– Velda Khoo, University of Colorado Boulder"I really enjoy using Everything’s an Argument in my classroom. My students are consistently pleasantly surprised by how ‘cool’ the textbook is, compared to the textbooks in their other courses."
– Jenna Goldsmith, Oregon State University
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Authors
Andrea A. Lunsford
Andrea Lunsford, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English emerita and former Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University, joined the Stanford faculty in 2000. Prior to this appointment, she was Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University (1986-2000) and, before that, Associate Professor and Director of Writing at the University of British Columbia (1977-86) and Associate Professor of English at Hillsborough Community College. A frequent member of the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, Andrea earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Florida and completed her Ph.D. in English at The Ohio State University (1977). She holds honorary degrees from Middlebury College and The University of Ôrebro.
Andreas scholarly interests include the contributions of women and people of color to rhetorical history, theory, and practice; collaboration and collaborative writing, comics/graphic narratives; translanguaging and style, and technologies of writing. She has written or coauthored many books, including Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse; Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing; and Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the History of Rhetoric, as well as numerous chapters and articles. For Bedford/St. Martin’s, she is the author of The St. Martins Handbook, The Everyday Writer, and EasyWriter; the co-author (with John Ruszkiewicz) of Everything’s an Argument and (with John Ruszkiewicz and Keith Walters) of Everything’s an Argument with Readings; and the co-author (with Lisa Ede) of Writing Together: Collaboration in Theory and Practice. She is also a regular contributor to the Bits teaching blog on Bedford/St. Martin’s English Community site.
Andrea has given presentations and workshops on the changing nature and scope of writing and critical language awareness at scores of North American universities, served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, as Chair of the Modern Language Association Division on Writing, and as a member of the MLA Executive Council. In her spare time, she serves on the Board of La Casa Roja’s Next Generation Leadership Network, as Chair of the Kronos Quartet Performing Arts Association--and works diligently if not particularly well in her communal organic garden.
John J. Ruszkiewicz
John J. Ruszkiewicz is a professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin where he taught literature, rhetoric, and writing for forty years. A winner of the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award, he was instrumental in creating the Department of Rhetoric and Writing in 1993 and directed the unit from 2001-05. He has also served as president of the Conference of College Teachers of English (CCTE) of Texas, which gave him its Frances Hernández Teacher—Scholar Award in 2012. For Bedford/St. Martins, he is coauthor, with Andrea Lunsford, of Everything’s an Argument and the author of How to Write Anything. In retirement, he writes the mystery novels under the pen name J.J. Rusz; the most recent, The Lost Mine Trail, published in 2020 on Amazon.
Keith Walters
Keith Walters is professor of applied linguistics at Portland State University. Much of his research focuses on language and identity in North Africa, especially Tunisia, and the United States. He has also taught freshman composition and English as a second/foreign language.
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