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Strategies for successful writing : a rhetoric, research guide, reader, and handbook / James A. Reinking, and Robert von der Osten.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Upper Saddle River, New. Jersey : Prentice Hall, c1999.Edition: 7th editionDescription: xx, 743 p. : ill.(some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0139564004
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.0427 23 REI
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

RHETORIC
1. Writing: a first look

2. Strategies for successful reading

3. Planning and drafting your paper

4. Revising and editing your paper

5. Narration: Relating events

6. Description: Presenting impressions

7. Process analysis: explaining how

8. Illustration: Making yourself clear

9. Classification: Grouping into categories

10. Comparison: showing relationships

11. Cause and effect: explaining why

12. Definition: Establishing boundaries

13. Argument: Convincing others

14. Mixing the writing strategies

15. Paragraphs

16. Effective sentences

17. Diction, tone, style

18. The essay examination

19. Writing about literature

20. Business letters and resumes

REASEARCH GUIDE
21. The research paper

22. Documenting sources

23. Additional research strategies: interviews, questionnaires, direct observations

Includes index P. 734-743

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