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MindTap English, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Mauk/Metz's Inventing Arguments, 4th Edition

John Mauk, John Metz

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MindTap English, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Mauk/Metz's Inventing Arguments 4th Edition by John Mauk/John Metz
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MindTap English for Mauk/Metz's Inventing Arguments, 4th Edition is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today's students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie cutter into cutting edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers. Easily integrate your own content and select readings from a vast database, providing a single place for students to access all their course materials. Encourage students to get individualized feedback on their writing from a professional tutor; manage electronic paper submission, grading, and peer review; and assign multimodal activities that help students apply writing skills to real life. Access to this product is valid for 6 months of usage.

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John Mauk

John Mauk, Ph.D., has a doctorate in rhetoric and writing from Bowling Green State University and a master's degree in language and literature from the University of Toledo. Over a 24-year career, he taught composition at Owens Community College, Northwestern Michigan College and Miami University. He was twice named professor of the year. He now writes in various genres, edits manuscripts for professional writers and teaches in continuing education programs. He also hosts Prose from the Underground, a video series featuring interviews and practical advice for working writers.

John Metz

John Metz began teaching college writing as a graduate student at the University of Toledo in 1983. He then taught at University of Toledo, Umpqua Community College and Kent State University over the next forty years. He focused on helping students learn to invent ideas, make appropriate rhetorical decisions and redefine what writing is or can be. His students sometimes said, “I thought this was supposed to be a writing course.”

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LEARNING PATH
Read the learning objectives to discover what you can achieve by completing this learning path.
Do the “Getting Started” activity as an introduction to the topic.
Read and view the multimedia instruction so you’ll know how to write an argument.
Complete any homework assignments.
Write and upload your argument.
Reflect on what you have learned.

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  • ISBN-10: 1305115007
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  • ISBN-10: 1305092147
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Inventing Arguments

ISBN: 9781305092143
Organized around common rhetorical situations that occur all around us, INVENTING ARGUMENTS shows students that argument is a living process rather than a form to be modeled. The text's focus on invention teaches students to recognize the rhetorical elements of any argumentative situation and apply the tools of argument effectively in their own writing. Students are introduced to the basic layers of argument in early chapters, with material arranged into increasingly sophisticated topics beginning with the most obvious or explicit layers (claims) and moving to the more implied layers of assumptions, values, beliefs, and ideology. By the time they finish Part I, your students will have a thorough understanding of argument, which they can then apply to the invention projects in Chapters 7\u221212.