Overview
Featuring seventy-two brief selections, this accessible compilation features a dual organization with readings that illustrate a specific rhetorical pattern while exploring the chapter’s theme. Selections range from professional essays to annotated student essays, short stories, and poems. The text also includes full-color fine art as well as advertisements and photographs.
Helps readers to write better.
Writing process instruction, thematic reading selections.
Anyone who would like to write better.
Synopsis
Some 90 interesting, brief selections each illustrate a particular rhetorical pattern while exploring a relevant theme. Selections range from professional essays to student essays, short stories, poems, a cartoon, four-color fine art, advertisements, and photographs. Each chapter begins with an introduction providing guidelines for understanding the rhetorical pattern illustrated, as well as vocabulary, questions, and writing topics. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR