A concise version of the most successful college rhetoric published in over a decade, The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing: Concise Edition offers the most progressive and teachable introduction now available to academic and personal writing.
The four-color guide offers engaging instruction in rhetoric and composition, a flexible sequence of comprehensive writing assignments, and numerous examples of student and professional writing. Solidly grounded in current theory and research, yet eminently practical and teachable, The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing: Concise Edition has set the new standard for first-year composition courses in writing, reading, critical thinking, and inquiry.
Table of Contents:
I. A RHETORIC FOR COLLEGE WRITERS.
1. Posing Problems: The Demands of College Writing.
2. Exploring Problems, Pursuing Claims.
3. Thinking Rhetorically about Purpose, Audience, and Genre.
4. Thinking Rhetorically about How Messages Persuade.
II. WRITING PROJECTS.
Writing to Learn.
5. Seeing Rhetorically: The Writer as Shaper/Observer.
6. Reading Rhetorically: The Writer as Strong Reader.
Writing to Inform.
7. Writing an Informative (and Surprising) Essay.
Writing to Analyze and Synthesize.
8. Analyzing Images.
9. Analyzing and Synthesizing Ideas.
Writing to Persuade.
10. Writing a Classical Argument.
III. A GUIDE TO COMPOSING AND REVISING.
11. Writing as a Problem-Solving Process.
12. Composing and Revising Closed-Form Prose.
IV. A RHETORICAL GUIDE TO RESEARCH.
13. The Rhetoric of Web Sites.
14. Citing and Documenting Sources.
