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Writing Better Essays: A Rhetorical Guide to Writing and Revision(Frameworks for Writing)

Writing Better Essays: A Rhetorical Guide to Writing and Revision(Frameworks for Writing)


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Writing Better Essays, now in its second edition, is an authoritative but accessible guide to writing successful argumentative essays that combines classical approaches with practical advice tailored to contemporary students. Designed to be effective either in the classroom or for independent learning, the book will appeal students at all levels, ranging from advanced placement to post-graduate, its detailed explanations of key steps of the writing and editing process from conception through planning and execution ensuring that students will be able to create a coherent argumentative essay that features the classical circular and reiterative structure. The conversational style and tone of the book serves to give students much-needed confidence as they approach their writing, as does its extended explanation of the key skill of paragraphing and its commonsense advice on punctuation. Students should find that its extensive use of exercises, its well-chosen examples of good practice, and its emphasis on imitation makes it an ideal primary or secondary textbook for courses. Teachers of writing should appreciate the instructor's guide at the beginning of the book as well as the consistent emphasis throughout on the need for students to commit themselves to practice and revision if they want to write effective argumentative essays.



Table of Contents:
Series Editor’s Preface Martha C. Pennington Instructor’s Guide Introduction: Developing a Trusted Process of Writing and Revision Chapter 1 Preparing, Creating, and Structuring Your First Draft Chapter 2 Developing Your Paragraphs Chapter 3 Bridging by Connectives: The Art of Creating Transitions Chapter 4 Bridging by Forms of Repetition Chapter 5 Bridging through Reference Chapter 6 Practicing Imitation and Revising Your Paragraphs Chapter 7 Looking More Closely at Your Thesis Statements Chapter 8 Adding Introductions Chapter 9 Reviewing Your Final Essays Chapter 10 Submitting Your Final Essays Appendix A: Bibliography of Authoritative Sources on Essay Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition Appendix B: Stages in Our Writing Process for Argumentative Essays Appendix C: Sample Topics for Further Practice

About the Author :
David L. Rogers is Emeritus Senior Fellow at Kingston University, London, having previously been Head of the School of Humanities at Kingston and Director of the Kingston Writing School. He taught English and American literature, essay writing, composition and grammar, rhetoric, creative writing and journalism in universities in the US and the UK for over thirty years and ran the annual Athens International Creative Writing Summer School in partnership with the British Council between 2012-2019.

Review :
If you want to learn how to write better essays, look no further than David Rogers’ new book. He makes the process of writing concrete, interweaving the processes of planning, drafting, and revising with the skills high school and college students need to write thoughtful and effective essays. The activities in this book take you from the initial stages of conceptualizing an essay to the final stage of completing and submitting it. What makes this book especially powerful is its practicality and the incredible know-how that informs each and every recommended activity. Only a master teacher can write a guide as useful as this.
Steve Graham, Regents & Warner Professor, Arizona State University
David fundamentally changed my writing – and my attitude to writing – for the better. As this book details, the power of his teaching comes not only from an understanding of the strictures of essay writing (and how to circumvent them when needed), but also from the resources and processes he provides for writers to find their own voice. This is an astonishing thing to impart in such a rigid format as the essay, but David excels at making it easy and intelligible. Starting out as a science writer I had little idea how to find a flow, or how to move from one idea to another, paragraph to paragraph. David makes that bridging a focal point, no doubt to the relief and elation of any new writers fortunate enough to investigate this book. He also dispels the notion that one can be born a good writer: here he sets out a critical path to excellence in essay writing – via non-linear planning, revision, and other vital lessons – that anyone can follow. This is an essential read for anyone embarking on an academic course – and for anyone who wants to improve their essay writing, no matter their experience.
Dr. Emma L. Henderson, University of Surrey, UK
Writing Better Essays is the best book on paragraphing I have ever used. It is more useful than any other writing guide I have taught because it manages to be thorough and concise simultaneously. Every chapter contains evidence of Professor Rogers’ decades of
experience guiding student writers. His discussions strike an impressive balance between the formal and informal, and his explanations ring true from start to finish. He provides interesting and varied examples for each step of the writing process as well as exercises which target each improvement being studied. The discussion of the process of composition and the ordering of the steps of writing and revising become immediately clear. Students should become increasingly confident in their ability to achieve greater success in their composition procedures and practices.

Martha C. McNair PhD (retired) Fayetteville (Arkansas) High School, Northwest Arkansas Community College, and University of Arkansas


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781781798331
  • Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Equinox Publishing Ltd
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 364
  • Returnable: 03
  • Sub Title: A Rhetorical Guide to Writing and Revision
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1781798338
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2024
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 03
  • Series Title: Frameworks for Writing
  • Weight: 880 gr


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