A Writer's Repertoire 1: Rhetoric & Writing

1st Edition

Gwendolyn Gong
Sam Dragga

A Writer's Repertoire 1: Rhetoric and Writing provides an overview of rhetorical terms and concepts, visualization and mapping of writing situations, composing processes, collaborative writing, and cooperative learning. This first book in the series also explores the rhetorical canons of invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery.

Key Features

• Three handy paperbacks, each focusing on specific writing areas, allow teachers to use texts flexibly according to their curicular and classroom needs.

• An author's life-story recalling special moments opens each chapter, illustrating key ideas of language, composing, and rhetoric.

• The distinction between knowledge by participation and knowledge by observation makes it easy for students to recognize how they have obtained information and to identify which of their ideas require documentation.

• Students visualize and map their rhetorical situations on a knowledge continuum and their readers on an audience continuum.

• Students learn how typography, illustration, and page design choices available in everyday word-processing programs can integrate verbal and visual information.

• The series features 23 students essays; advice on writing essay examinations; guides on grammar, punctuation, logic, practical reasoning, researched writing, and citation of sources (including MLA, CMS, APA, and IEEE styles).

Books in Series

A Writer's Repertoire 2 : Aims & Purposes

A Writer's Repertoire 3 : Nuts & Bolts