Creating America : Reading and Writing Arguments (2 Rev ed)

This reader/rhetoric emphasizes the argumentative strategies readers need to analyze and write arguments.

At the same time, it helps readers see that Americans have always defined themselves and maintained a sense of unity--despite great diversity--through ongoing public debate about what America means.

Selections reflect colonial times to the present, and include posters, photographs advertisements, and court cases in addition to essays, poems, and stories.