具体描述
The twelfth edition of Readings for Writers provides comprehensive coverage of many rhetorical skills and strategies. It contains more than 110 readings, including essays, poems, short stories, excerpts from books, biographies, speeches, paragraphs, and e-mails. Its contributors range from Shakespeare to struggling students to ordinary people with something interesting to say, and boys its scope of coverage encompasses a breathtaking variety of topics, from how boys in Gilbert Island kill octopuses with their teeth to a description of the thing for everyone of every taste and every bent.
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目录信息
Preface
Part One-Reading and Writing: From reading to writing
1.Guidelines for Critical Reading 003
2.What Is Rhetoric? 017
3.What Is a Writer's Voice? 055
4.What Is a Thesis? 091
5.How Do I Organize? 129
6.Developing Paragraph 161
Part Two-Patterns of Development:The Rhetorical Modes
7.Narration 195
8.Description 251
9.process Analysis 295
10.Illustration/Exemplification 337
11.Definition 375
12.Comparison/Contrast 421
13.Division/Classification 477
14.Causal Analysis 519
15.Argumentation and Persuasion 569
16.Combining the Mode 613
Imagine Gallery 647
Part Three-Rewriting your Writing
The Editing Booth
revising 682
editing 685
Editing an Actual Essay 696
Part Four-Special Writing Project
Assignment 1: The Research Paper 705
Assignment 2: The Literary Paper 780
Annotated Literary Paper 785
Glossary 795
Credits 803
Index 809
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