Patterns for A Purpose: A Rhetorical Reader - Softcover

Clouse, Barbara Fine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070119805 ISBN 13: 9780070119802

Publisher: McGraw-Hill College, 1998

Synopsis

This rhetorically organized reader presents the patterns of development in the most realistic way--as a means of fulfilling the writer's purpose, not as ends in themselves, and with argumentation-persuasion treated as a purpose for writing as well as a pattern.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Clouse has taught all levels of college composition, first at Youngstown State University in northeastern Ohio and then at Slippery Rock University in western Pennsylvania. She has also written a number of composition texts. In addition to A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers, her books include The Student Writer: Editor and Critic, Jumpstart: A Workbook for Writers, Patterns for a Purpose: A Rhetorical Reader, and Transitions: From Reading to Writing, all written for McGraw-Hill. She has also developed Cornerstones: Readings for Writers, which is a short prose reader that is part of Primis, McGraw-Hill's custom publishing database. Barbara has also written Progressions with Readings and Conventions and Expectations: A Brief Handbook and Guide to Writing for Longman Publishers. A frequent presenter at national and regional conferences, Barbara often conducts workshops for writing teachers.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0070119805
• ISBN 13: 9780070119802
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 752