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Strategies: A Rhetoric and Reader with Handbook

Autor Arnold Tibbetts, Arn Tibbetts Charlene Tibbets
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 1996
Strategies is the only rhetoric/reader/handbook to include a full discussion of the writer's stance and ethics in writing and reading. Providing practical solutions to students' writing problems, the text includes dozens of examples of student writing, as well as many short pieces by professionals. Divided into three parts, the rhetoric provides writing strategies along with some suggestions about the ethics of composition; the reader supplies rhetorically-organized examples of writers working at their craft; and the handbook gives standard advice on grammar and usage.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780673980359
ISBN-10: 0673980359
Pagini: 500
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:5Nouă
Editura: Pearson
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Descriere

Strategies is the only rhetoric/reader/handbook to include a full discussion of the writer's stance and ethics in writing and reading. Providing practical solutions to students' writing problems, the text includes dozens of examples of student writing, as well as many short pieces by professionals. Divided into three parts, the rhetoric provides writing strategies along with some suggestions about the ethics of composition; the reader supplies rhetorically-organized examples of writers working at their craft; and the handbook gives standard advice on grammar and usage.

Cuprins

I: THE RHETORIC.
1. The Question of Ethics in Writing and Reading.
2. Finding Subjects—An Introduction.
3. The Writer's Stance.
4. Making a Point—Your Thesis.
5. Shaping and Outlining Ideas.
6. What Words Should You Avoid?
7. Effective Sentence Structure.
8. Organizing Clear Paragraphs and Essays.
9. The Research Paper.
II: THE READER.
10. Mixed Strategies.
Student Essay 1: Sticking to Bumpers. Student Essay 2: Pop Singers and the National Anthem. Professional Essay: My Fat Problem and Theirs, Sharon Portnoy. 11. Description.
The Cat, Mark Twain.The Midnight Shift Does Murder Sleep, Carol Treasure.My Father, The New Yorker.12. Narration.
To Live is to Rage Against the Dark, Ron Hoff.Leaving the Farm, Don Holt.A Childhood, Harry Crews.13. Process.
Freewriting Exercises, Peter Elbow.The Purist, Patrick McManus.Shelters on the Plains, Roger Welsch.14. Cause and Effect.
The Relative Explosion, Claudia Dowling.The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks.Sports and Beer—There's Trouble Brewing, William Oscar Johnson.15. Classification.
How do we Find the Student in a World of Academic Gymnasts and Worker Ants? James T. Baker.16. Illustration.
A Pox on All Our Houses, John Leo.A Gen-X Rip Van Winkle, Joshua Janoff.Urban Legends, Jan Harold Brunvand.17. Definition.
In Praise of the Humble Comma, Pico Iyer.What to Call People of Color, Barbara Lyles."America Cool" Is Killing Love, Kay S. Hymowitz.18. Comparison and Contrast.
Ten Reasons Skiing is Dead, Alex Kozinski.Once More to the Lake, E.B. White.A World Where Too Many Children Don't Grow Up, Perri Klass.19. Analogy.
What True Education Should Do, Sydney J. Harris.Becoming Mom to an Infant Word Processor, Ann H. Zwinger.Legalizing Addictive Drugs Like Bringing Back Slavery, A.M. Rosenthal.20. Argument.
Working Time and a Half, Christine Davidson."Reel" vs. Real Violence, John Russo.Why One Peaceful Woman Carries a Pistol, Linda Hasselstrom.Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. III: HANDBOOK.
Index.