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Overview
This collection of primarily contemporary readings is organized around the various rhetorical purposes that motivate writers. Including detailed guides to writing motives such as Analyzing Texts, Analyzing Images, and Writing Arguments, this text provides a rhetorically grounded approach to academic writing and research.Editorials
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Offers a text reflecting the belief that helping students to discover and fulfill their motives for writing will help them write well. Places motives for writing within the context of other elements of the rhetorical situation, and discusses strategies for invention, arrangement, and revision. Offers a wealth of readings illustrating various motives and styles of writing, with discussion questions and suggestions for writing following each reading. Forty of the 75 readings are new to this third edition. This edition also contains two new chapters, streamlined organization, and links pointing out connections among readings. The author is associated with the University of St. Thomas. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
July 1, 2002
Publisher
Mayfield Publishing Co ,U.S.
Pages
576
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780767416832