Short Takes: Model Essays Composition - Softcover
This lively collection of short, readable essays provides readily accessible models of the various thetorical modes, including argument. Representing a mix of ages, genders, and cultures, the readings illustrate primary and secondary patterns of exposition through a variety of familiar, interesting topics while the extensive apparatus promotes an understanding of the choices writers make.
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This lively collection of fifty-eight short, readable essays provides useful models of the rhetorical modes. Along with familiar names like Maya Angelou and Russell Baker, the text features many new voices such as Bharati Mukherjee, Humberto Fontova, and Bjorn Skogquist. Detailed chapter openers discuss the writing process and introduce each rhetorical mode; headnotes for each essay give a brief biography of its author and explains its context. The introductory section "Freeze Frame" establishes the reading and writing connection, a concept reinforced throughout the text. For those interested in improving their critical thinking, reading and writing skills.
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- PublisherHarpercollins College Div
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0673465985
- ISBN 13 9780673465986
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages323
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Short Takes: Model Essays Composition
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ISBN 13: 9780673465986
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