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Minds Made for Stories: How We Really Read and Write Informational and Persuasive Texts
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In this highly readable and provocative book, Thomas Newkirk explodes the long standing habit of opposing abstract argument with telling stories. Newkirk convincingly shows that effective argument is already a kind of narrative and is deeply "entwined with narrative." Gerald Graff, former MLA President and author of Clueless in Academe
Narrative is regularly considered a type of writing—often an “easy” one, appropriate for early grades but giving way to argument and analysis in later grade...
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