This guide shows students the skills and processes of analysis, argument, source evaluation, and research-based essay writing. Through written, visual, and media texts, it explains how to write thesis statements, titles, introductions, conclusions, citations, and bibliographies. It addresses analyzing texts; using persuasion strategies; composing, planning and proposing, organizing and writing, and designing arguments; finding and evaluating research sources; avoiding plagiarism and documenting sources; and delivering presentations. This edition adds new exercises on writing skills, new and updated articles and student writing, a focus in articles and writing samples on controversial issues, three modes of argument instruction (classical rhetoric, Toulmin, and Rogerian approaches), more details on rhetoric and rhetorical fallacies, more on annotated bibliographies, and writer's process features and pre-writing checklists, in addition to a revised chapter on Modern Language Association style. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) Read Less