Required Texts

You’ll need two texts for the course, but you won’t need them until later in the semester.  If you can’t find them in the bookstore, then you might check out different internet resources.  I’ve always had good luck with www.AbeBooks.com.  Last time I checked, Rottenberg’s text was selling starting at about $4.00.

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The Elements of Argument: A Text and Reader by Annette T. Rottenberg

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  • According to the American Communication Journal, “Though marketed as an English Composition book, the seventh edition of Rottenberg’s text is well suited to communication courses in written or oral argumentation and debate. The book’s comprehensive and engaging approach supports a diversity of instructional approaches, while providing students with a solid foundation in theory and application. The updated version has significantly overhauled supplemental materials and uses a new two-color organization scheme that more clearly highlights materials within the chapters.”
  • If you find a copy online, make sure that you get the eighth edition; however, if you picked up a different edition at the bookstore, you can use that one for the semester (just be prepared to have different page numbers).
  • Need for class on Sept. 15

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They Say / I Say The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein

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  • Summary according to W. W. Norton Company’s website: “They Say / I Say” shows that writing well means mastering some key rhetorical moves, the most important of which involves summarizing what others have said (”they say”) to set up one’s own argument (”I say”). In addition to explaining the basic moves, this book provides writing templates that show students explicitly how to make these moves in their own writing.”
  • If you have a different edition than the one pictured, no worries.  You can still use your copy for class.
  • Need for class by October 1.

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