Longwood Guide to Writing, The - Hardcover

Lunsford, Ronald F.; Bridges, Bill; Bridges, Charles W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0205272061 ISBN 13: 9780205272068

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 1999

Synopsis

Aims-based rhetoric/reader/handbook characterized by its accessibility and based on the authors' classroom teaching. Emphasizes invention, including a unique technique based on Burke. Includes 31 professional and 21 student essays (from authors' classes), 3 poems, and 4 short stories. Differentiates between argument and persuasion - unique. Unique chapters on style at the word and sentence level.

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From the Back Cover:

Reflecting Ron Lunsford and Bill Bridges' fifty years of combined teaching experience and their commitment to (and understanding of) the writing process, The Longwood Guide to Writing is among the most engaging, up-to-date, and authoritative aims-based rhetorics on the market. In this book, the authors help students see the organic nature of the writing process by continually offering students the opportunity to examine and refine their own individual writing processes, rather than limiting them to a single one-size-fits-all process. Readers are introduced to the various phases of the writing process, beginning with a wide variety of invention strategies, then they are invited to apply their creativity and what they have learned to a variety of writing occasions from the personal essay to the persuasive to the literary. They learn effective ways to do research, write with sources, take essay exams, and create portfolios, and in two unique chapters devoted to style they learn how form affects content. For anyone interested in composition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0205272061
• ISBN 13: 9780205272068
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 700