Subject and Strategy: A Writer's Reader - Softcover

Eschholz, Paul; Rosa, Alfred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312612737 ISBN 13: 9780312612733

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010

Synopsis

Subject & Strategy helps students write by offering engaging, teachable readings supported by time-tested pedagogy. Its mix of beloved classics and timely current readings provides exceptional models of writing. Its proven advice on writing and reading, innovative classroom exercises, and engaging writing assignments guide students to choose the rhetorical strategy that best suits their subject and then to use that strategy to achieve their writing purpose. Features include annotated student essays in each mode, extensive apparatus supporting every selection, and a “Writers on Writing” chapter that helps students see themselves as writers. And this classic reader is priced $15-30 less than similar competing readers.

About this title

About the Author:

ALFRED ROSA and PAUL ESCHHOLZ are professors emeriti of English at the University of Vermont. They have directed statewide writing programs and conducted numerous workshops throughout the country on writing and the teaching of writing. Rosa and Eschholz have collaborated on a number of best-selling texts for Bedford/St. Martin's, including Models for Writers, Tenth Edition (2010); Outlooks and Insights: A Reader for College Writers, Fourth Edition (1995); with Virginia Clark, Language Awareness, Tenth Edition (2008); and, with Virginia Clark and Beth Simon, Language: Readings in Language and Culture, Seventh Edition (2007). 

Review:

"Subject and Strategy is written in clear, concise language, and the reading selections are interesting and timely and generate wonderful classroom discussions."

-- Patricia Jo Teel, Victor Valley College

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0312612737
• ISBN 13: 9780312612733
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 784