Teaching the Argument in Writing

by Richard Fulkerson

Book by Fulkerson, Richard

184 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[J. Alfred · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good book which is written by a guy who is a masterful reader of English papers and also a mathmatician: it is therefore a book full of lists. Hopefully, one can forget all the lists (lists of classifications of argument, of types of acceptable evidence for claims, of claims themselves, of fallacies, etc) and still retain the substance. Fulkerson includes a generous amount of excerpts which he then examines as a model using his lists as tools. I have been grading student papers for a while now, but I feel like I learned could take some real tips from grading over Fulkerson's shoulder.