Asking Questions: A Rhetoric for the Intellectual Life - Softcover

Runciman, Lex; Anderson, Chris

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.

About this edition

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