Larger	The Shape of Reason: Argumentative Writing in College (3rd Edition) Author: John T. Gage
	Book Information Publisher: Longman Book Type: Paperback Rating: 1 ISBN-13: 9780205319275 - ISBN-10: 0205319270 Publication Date: 7/28/2000 Pages: 361

This brief rhetoric of argument teaches critical reading, informal reasoning, and writing as reasoned inquiry, and now features a mini-anthology of arguments on civic issues. The Shape of Reason emphasizes the enthymeme as the central basis for the invention and structure of arguments. This approach blends classical insights into rhetorical reasoning with contemporary understandings of the composing process as generative and organic, situated within discourse communities. The book helps to understand argument as inquiry, stressing the responsibility that writers have - to their audience and to their own ideas - in structuring arguments that earn their conclusions and in considering opposing arguments. For anyone interested in argumentative writing.