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Controversy:
Issues for Reading and Writing
First Edition
by Judith J. Pula, Audrey T. Edwards
and R. Allan Dermott
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This book asks you to use what you know to judge an author's ideas and write about them.
You may think you don't know enough to argue with a professional writer. We think you do. For one thing, you have had experiences no one else has had; you and your classmates together have had a great many experiences. For another thing, it's possible to reach different opinions from the same set of facts. In fact, this book gives two opinions on each topic: a short preview article and a longer essay following it. Once you've compared the two, you can draw your own conclusions. There are 15 major topics in this book, ranging from juvenile justice to reducing the threat of drugs. For each topic, the book has four steps: preview, reading, discussion, and writing.
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