Writing in Response - Softcover

Parfitt, Matthew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312403933 ISBN 13: 9780312403935

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2011

Synopsis

Writing in Response is a flexible, brief rhetoric that offers a unique focus on the critical practices of experienced readers—analysis and reflection—the skills at the heart of academic writing. It helps students compose academic essays by showing how active reading and exploratory writing bring fresh ideas to light and how informal response is developed into polished, documented prose. Extensively class tested, Writing in Response emphasizes the key techniques common to reading, thinking, and writing throughout the humanities and social sciences by teaching students the value of a social, incremental, and recursive writing process. Read the preface.

About this title

About the Author:

Matthew Parfitt (Ph.D., Boston College) is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Chair of the Division of Rhetoric at Boston University’s College of General Studies. In 2002 he received the Peyton Richter Award for interdisciplinary teaching. He is coeditor of Conflicts and Crises in the Composition Classroom—And What Instructors Can Do About Them and Cultural Conversations: The Presence of the Past.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0312403933
• ISBN 13: 9780312403935
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512