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The Working Writer - Softcover

Toby-fulwiler

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9780133073720: The Working Writer

Synopsis

This is the best book I've ever written. It's based on the opening rhetorical chapters of The Blair Handbook, a 1994 work I coauthored with Alan Hayakawa.

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From the Publisher

In a friendly, writer-to-writer tone, Toby Fulwiler offers a practical, process-oriented rhetoric for freshman composition. The coverage is balanced and complete, with full attention to invention, research, revising, and editing and detailed information on six types of essays commonly assigned in first-year writing classes.

From the Back Cover

This outstanding, concise writing guide is key to your success in class and will help you write clearly and convincingly throughout college and beyond.  In The Working Writer, Fifth Edition, Toby Fulwiler supports you with:

  • instruction and models for a broad range of writing occassions: reflecting on experience, exploring self and others, explaining things, arguing for and against, interpreting texts, writing creative nonfiction, writing examinations, and writing on the job.
  • three timely, new chapters: "Reading Images Critically," "Writing Across and Within the Disciplines," and "Writing on the Job."
  • his rich experience and compassionate, candid writing style.

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