Empoword

How to Use This Book xxix Table of Contents – Readings (continued) Skills or Rhetorical Modes Showcased “Why Boston’s Hospitals Were Ready” by Atul Gawande Talking to people about that day, I was struck by how ready and almost rehearsed they were for this event. A decade earlier, nothing approaching their level of collaboration and efficiency would have occurred. We have, as one colleague put it to me, replaced our pre-9/11 naïveté with post-9/11 sobriety. Where before we’d have been struck dumb with shock about such events, now we are almost calculating about them. Argumentation Research Concepts Inquiry-based research Interacting with Sources Thesis (Claim of phenomenon and policy) Evidence (Quote, paraphrase, summarize) Evidence (primary sources) 449