Purpose and Process: A Reader for Writers (5th Edition) - Softcover

Reid, Stephen P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131823973 ISBN 13: 9780131823976

Publisher: Pearson, 2003

Synopsis

This innovative reader focuses on writers' purposes and processes for reading and writing, and on the connections between, reading and writing. Every chapter integrates purpose, process, and rhetorical strategies for achieving specific writing goals. Sixty-four selections by both professional and student writers illustrate these purposes. The readings address reading and writing purposes and processes, observing, remembering, investigating, explaining, evaluating, problem solving, and arguing. For those interested in improving their reading, writing and research abilities.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Innovative in its approach, this best-selling reader focuses on writers' purposes and processes for reading and writing—and on the connections between reading and writing. Stephen Reid outlines practical guidelines and strategies for achieving specific writing goals and illustrates these strategies with captivating selections by both professional and student writers.

Encouraging writers to take control of their reading and writing, Purpose and Process, Fifth Edition, contains:

• Argument Chapter revised to explain three kinds of argument: the traditional debate-style argument, Rogerian argument, and constructive argument to help you examine the multiple points of view behind most controversial topics.
• All new images throughout the text that allow you to draw conclusions and make connections between images and the written word.
• New Research Appendix on conducting research and documenting sources that guides you from research plan, to gathering sources, citing sources in the text (while avoiding plagiarism), and using MLA documentation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131823973
• ISBN 13: 9780131823976
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 608