Harbrace guide to writing

[In this volume, the author] infuses the common genres and strategies with a rhetorical awareness in the context of actual local situations. [It] translates rhetorical theory into easy-to-follow (and easy-to-teach) techniques that help sharpen your ability to observe what words, assertions, or opinions might work best with a particular audience in a specific situation.-Back cover.

Originally published: Boston, MA : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, ©2009.

Entering the conversation, the rhetorical situation: Understanding the rhetorical situation; Identifying a fitting response; Working with your available means -- Rhetorical situations for writers: Sharing the experience of taste, responding with memoirs; Portraying successful rhetors, responding with profiles; Investigating corporations on campus, responding with reports; Persuading in a multilingual context, responding with position arguments; Who decides, responding with proposals; Evaluating visual culture, responding with critical reviews; Causes and consequences of the global village, responding with critical analyses; Everyday reading, responding with literary analyses -- Available means, strategies for developing ideas: Definition; Comparison; Relationship; Circumstance -- Guide to research: Research and the rhetorical situation; Research in the library and online; Research in the field; Managing the research process; Reading, evaluating, and responding to sources; Acknowledging sources -- Rhetorical guide to grammar and sentence style: Word classes and rhetorical effects; Sentence structure and rhetorical effects; Editing for clarity and style; Punctuation, mechanics, and …