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A Textbook Argument: Definitions of Argument in Leading Composition Textbooks
Knoblauch, A. Abby
College Composition and Communication, v63 n2 p244-268 Dec 2011
This essay examines the definitions and practices of argument perpetuated by popular composition textbooks, illustrating how even those texts that appear to forward expansive notions of argument ultimately limit it to an intent to persuade. In doing so, they help perpetuate constricted practices of argument within undergraduate composition classrooms. (Contains 12 notes.)
Descriptors: Textbooks, Definitions, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Persuasive Discourse, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study
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