Writing Analytically, 6th Edition - Rosenwasser, David & Stephen, Jill.original_ [10]
Chapter 9, Analyzing Arguments has been rewritten and includes new sections on Rogerian argument and practical reasoning as well as figurative logic. The brief glossary of common logical errors has also been significantly expanded with many new examples. The book is aligned with the thinking of Carl Rogers and others on the goal of making argument less combative, less inflected by a vocabulary of military strategizing that discourages negotiation among competing points of view and the evolution of new ideas from the pressure of one idea against another.
The discussion in Chapter 14, Finding, Citing, and Integrating Sources, now features a much expanded treatment of the four documentation styles—APA, Chicago, CSE, and MLA—compiled by reference librarian Kelly Cannon.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
First and foremost, thanks to our students who test drive and troubleshoot the book’s writing advice. Thanks especially to our wonderful cadre of writing tutors who have developed workshops for students and faculty based on our book.
We continue to be grateful for the support of our publishers over the years. In particular, let us single out our developmental editor, Mary Beth Walden, for her sound advice, patience, and good cheer. Thanks too to Margaret Leslie, Leslie Taggart and to a host of others, past and present: Karl Yambert, Michael Rosenberg, Dickson Musslewhite, John Meyers, Michell Phifer, Karen R. Smith, Julie McBurney, Ellen Shraim, Kevin Loane, and Dan Silverberg (go Sox).
We are very grateful to our faculty colleagues at Muhlenberg who created workshops for our writing tutors on writing in their disciplines and then contributed expanded versions of these materials for the book: Keri Colabroy, Christopher Borick, and Mark Sciutto. Boundless thanks as well to Kelly Cannon, reference librarian extraordinaire, for his expanded contributions on how to think and act like a researcher.
The cross-curricular dimension of this book would be sadly impoverished without the interest and support of an enviable range of colleagues who participate in the writing cohort at our college. They have shared with us examples of good student and professional writing in their fields, writing assignments from their writing-intensive classes, and examples of their own writing: George Benjamin, Linda Bips, Susan Clemens, Ted Conner, Amy Corbin, William “Chip” Gruen, Brian Mello, Marcia Morgan, Jefferson Pooley, Pearl Rosenberg, and Jeremy Teissere. We are also grateful to Katherine Kibblinger Gottschalk of Cornell University for permission to quote her unpublished 4 C’s paper on the correspondence of E.B. White.
Thanks to Kate Christein, Assistant Director of the Writing Center, for keeping everything up and running while we were stuck in front of our computer screens producing this revision. And thanks also to our colleague Linda Bips, with whom we co-direct the Writing Program. We and it would be much less sane without her. Grace Gardella has looked out for us in the English department. And we are grateful for the support provided by the folks at Pistachios—Colleen Hauck, Sidney Stecher, and Eric Serrano.
Deep thanks are due to Eddie Singleton, Scott DeWitt, Wendy Hesford, and their graduate students at the Ohio State University: our annual visits there have nourished our thinking about writing in countless ways. Christine Farris at Indiana University has been a friend of the book from its earliest days, and we cannot imagine sitting down to revise without the trenchant advice she offers us. Thanks too to her colleague, the unsinkable John Schilb and to Ted Leahey, teacher of teachers. And for the many conversations about teaching and writing that have sustained us we thank