Asking Questions: A Rhetoric for the Intellectual Life - Softcover

Runciman, Lex; Anderson, Chris

 
9780205278282: Asking Questions: A Rhetoric for the Intellectual Life
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0205278280 ISBN 13: 9780205278282
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 2000

Synopsis

A short, inviting, rhetoric for composition, Asking Questions is based on active inquiry and active learning and gives practice in rhetoric writing. The six chapters of Asking Questions emphasize the fundamental importance of making and supporting worthwhile claims. Each chapter opens by discussing one of the key academic tasks. Each offers activities for discussion and informal writing, presents several essay options arising from the activities and ends with two features strategies for getting started on an essay, and a sample essay illustrating one of the chapter's options. Asking Questions leads readers through such concerns as rhetorical setting, audience, and writing purposes and processes within a straightforward, accessible framework.

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Publisher
Allyn & Bacon
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0205278280
ISBN 13 
9780205278282
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
272

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