(Material new to this edition has been marked with an asterisk *). I. FORMS OF ARGUMENT. Persuasive Writing. Win Your Audience. Define the Issue. Make Your Case. Exercises. *Earn $300 to $500 a Week Stuffing Envelopes. *Internet No Substitute for Real Knowledge. George Cantor. Color Me Pro-Choice, Mitchell Farnum. *Dr. Durant Demonstrates Psychokinesis, Redstone Wire Service. The Whole Scoop on Coffee, Health After 50. *The New Stupidity in College Writing Classes, John Leo. Induction. Is the Sample Known? Is the Sample Sufficient? Is the Sample Representative? Polling. Occam''s Razor. Exercises. Essay Assignments. *America Needs a Flag-Protection Amendment, Senator Bob Dole. *We Don''t Need Immigrants, Dan Stein. Ban Boxing, Robert E. McAfee. Smoking Is Very Glamorous, American Cancer Society. *Ban Anti-Smoking Wimps!, Ed Anger. *Resolution on Moral Stewardship and the Disney Company, Southern Baptist Convention. Deduction. Are Premises True? Is the Language Ambiguous? Is the Syllogism Valid? Induction or Deduction? Exercises. Essay Assignments. *Ebonics Be a Complex Issue, Bill Cosby. Death Penalty Deters Violent Crime, Senator Strom Thurmond. Should Dirty Lyrics Be Against the Law?, Bob Martinez and Ira Glasser. John Saad Is Pro-Life, Catholic Week. *A Broader Approach to Respect for Life, Jerry Darring. *Equal Treatment Is Real Issue-Not Same-Sex Marriage, USA Today. Fallacies. False Analogy. Presumed Cause-Effect. Begging the Question. Ignoring the Question. Fallacies in Other Forms. Exercises. Left-Handers (Those Sickos!) Got No Reason to Live, Roger L. Guffey. *Greed and Liability Litigation, Mobile Press Register. *The Real Causes of "Gulf War Syndrome", Jim Schnabel. How Would You Like the Police to Investigate Your Miscarriage?, Planned Parenthood. Sizism: One of the Last "Safe" Prejudices, Sally E. Smith. *Is Abortion Self-Defense?, Nat Hentoff. Argument by Authority. Expert Testimony. Biased Testimony. Distorting Quotations. Exercises. Essay Assignments. *Federal Foolishness and Marijuana, Jerome P. Kassirer, M.D. Tracking the Werewolf, Fred A. Dobson. *The Need for Vision - Funding the NEH, Daniel McDonald. What Jesus Said About Homosexuality, Dignity/USA. There Is No Safe Sex, Robert C. Noble. *Power Line Paranoia, Robert L. Park. Semantic Argument. Snarl and Purr Words. Indirect Statement. Persuasive Style. Exercises. Essay Assignments. Psychometry: Getting the Vibrations, David St. Clair. *Why Oregon State Should Give Up Football, Jud Blakely. *Moment of Silent Reflection Intended to Circumvent Law, Cynthia Tucker. Which Would You Rather Put on Your Kids'' Cereal?, Sugar Association. *Greed and Overconsumption Are Killing the Rainforest, Randall Hayes. *The Inescapability of Humanism, James L. Battersby. Statistics. Averages. Questionable Figures. Irrelevant Numbers. Homemade Statistic. Enhancing a Statistic. Exercises. Essay Assignments. 100,000 Beer Commercials, Anheuser-Busch. *Best State Strategy vs. tobacco: Tax to the Max, USA Today. *Tobacco Taxes Are Unfair and Ineffective, Walker Merryman. God Bless America, Handgun Control. No, Virginia, there Isn''t a Santa Claus, Bruce Handy. *The Power of Prayer, Cooking Light. II. ARGUMENTS FOR ANALYSIS. The Handy Dandy Evolution Prover, Jonathan Weiner. *Hooters and Good Values, Sledge Clark. *The Confederate Flag is Not Racist, Scott Owens. *I Had Liposuction Instead, American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. *Asking God to Cheat in Sports, Dexter Martin. *The Many Benefits of Human Cloning, Mike Royko. Is it Any Wonder the Prisons Are Full?, Dakin, Inc. *The Right to Choose a Merciful Death, Cherie Graves. *Balanced Budget Amendment is Bad Policy, Horace B. Deets. *Pining for Prozac, John Rezek. *The Tony Randall Baby, M. Streeter. *Entrance to High School Should Not Be Automatic, Carol Jago. For a Better Life, Don''t Eat Any Beef, Dean Ornish. A Lot of Campus Rapes Start Here, Santa Monica Hospital. *Who Me, Censor?, Carol Hole. *Gambling in the New Testament, William M. Mock, Jr. Why Prisons Don''t Work, Wilbert Rideau. *Real Men Get It Checked, American Cancer Society. *The Case for Fact-Based Education, William Raspberry. *Let''s Do Away With Safety, Lawrence A. Bullis. *Butter: Now More than Ever the Natural Choice, National Dairy Board. *A Woman''s Place is in the Home - With the Dog!, Ed Anger. *NCAA''s Too-Tight Rules Hurt Deserving Students, USA Today. *NCAA Program Works, Cedric W. Dempsey. They''re Forgetting Someone, Michigan Right to Life. Should Priests Marry?, Martin Ridgeway. *Taking Movie Ratings Seriously, Alvin Poussaint, M.D. So I Have a Vitamin Gap, Big Deal, Council for Responsible Nutrition. *Dying is Not a Solely Private Decision, Our Sunday Visitor. Vitamin C Will Help You Win the Lottery, Ann Victoria. Let''s Get Mental Illness Out of the Closet, National Alliance for Research On Schizophrenia and Depression. Give Hotel Guests a Bible-Free Room, Annie Laurie Gaylor. *Hakeem Olajuwon Smokin'', American Cancer Society. *Challenging the Brady Bill, Mobile Press Register. *Mike Tyson Gets a Slap On the Wrist, Timothy Dwyer. *"In John Doe We Trust" is Not a Good Motto, Hillsdale College. Communication In Marriage, Gary Herubin. Woman Priests? Never!, S. L. Varnado. A Citizen''s Approach to County Government, Bill Hays. Stop Banning Things At the Drop of a Rat, Elizabeth M. Whelan. When You Give Blood, American Red Cross. Diary of An Unborn Child. *A Little Less Balance, Please, Art Levine. *Steve Forbes'' Flat Tax Proposal Deserves Another Look, Cal Thomas. In the U.S., Crime Pays Because Criminals Don''t, National Rifle Association. III. LITERARY ARGUMENT. *My Mistress'' Eyes, William Shakespeare. *, St. Crispin''s Day from Henry V, William Shakespeare. *To His Coy Mistress, Andrew Marvell. *Death Be Not Proud, John Donne. *Book IX from Paradise Lost, John Milton. *A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft. *A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift. *It''s Only a Novel from Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen. *My Last Duchess, Robert Browning. *I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General, Gilbert and Sullivan. *The Declaration of Independence. IV. EIGHT RULES FOR GOOD WRITING. Rule 1: Find A Subject You Can Work With. Exercises. Rule 2: Get Your Facts. Visit the Library. Using On-line Resourc