Title: For Teachers (and Students) of Persuasive Writing
Review: Graff and Birkenstein's short discourse on how to argue effectively is written in a clean, informal style that will appeal equally to young writers and their teachers. The authors stress the need to not only be familiar with your opponents' views, but to briefly incorporate them into your paper before offering your own counterarguments. This, along with providing context for the subject matter at hand, will make the paper that much stronger not only in its logos, but in its ethos and pathos as well.Especially appealing are the templates provided in each chapter. Like "training wheels," they provide a perfect start for writers hoping to show some rhetorical flair. Conveniently, the authors provide all of the templates together in an index at the back of the book. All in all, a worthy addition for your arsenal of writing manuals.
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