Strategies for successful writing : a rhetoric, research guide, reader, and handbook / James A. Reinking, and Robert von der Osten.
Publication details: Upper Saddle River, New. Jersey : Prentice Hall, c1999.Edition: 7th editionDescription: xx, 743 p. : ill.(some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:- 0139564004
- 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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