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The Companion Website which accompanies Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments, Third Edition by Lester Faigley and Jack Selzer is designed to provide both the instructor and the student with additional resources to aid in teaching and learning the content material on argumentation in the textbook. The authors have structured their textbook in an effort to introduce the developing writer to the strategies necessary for constructing persuasive arguments in the academic setting. The Web site is meant to complement and add to the development of all students into competent and confident writers able to construct a wide variety of arguments in their essays with ease.
The Instructor section provides each instructor with annotated Web links which relate to the course materials, both specifically to text materials on writing strategies, and more generally, to information on teaching argumentation in writing. This section also includes some activities and exercises which provide additional support for the instructor in the classroom and as possible outside-of-class assignments.
The Student section provides a wide variety of materials to assist students with their course work, as well as including complementary new information and resources. The student section for each chapter will include a brief chapter summary with specific content objectives, accompanied by annotated Web links for that chapter's material. Extra activities for each chapter are also included, which may range from Internet search projects related to the arguments or writing strategies specific to that chapter to more general writing practice exercises. Each section closes with one quiz or exercise set which underscores the materials and ideas about argumentation and academic writing that the student should have mastered by the end of each chapter. Additional online arguments are provided for each of the readings chapters, and there are special sections for each Issue in Focus from the textbook.
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