Patterns of Reflection: A Reader (4th Edition) - Softcover

Seyler, Dorothy U.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205314813 ISBN 13: 9780205314812

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group, 2000

Synopsis

This new edition provides engaging selections on personal, social, and political concerns and issues. The book asks readers to think about the challenges and rewards of reading and writing, both in an honest and helpful introduction and in six essays on issues such as writing anxiety and on the value of keeping a journal. Each of the subsequent chapters illustrates one specific pattern or purpose, progressing from basic skills to the more demanding ones: narration, description, comparison and contrast, explaining and illustrating, process analysis, and argument and persuasion. For anyone interested in writing.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This brief, engaging reader provides readable selections organized by both rhetorical patterns and themes. Featuring more than ninety brief selections, this accessible compilation features a dual organization with readings that illustrate a specific rhetorical pattern while exploring a relevant theme. Each chapter is enriched by an introduction that provides specific guidelines for understanding the rhetorical pattern illustrated, vocabulary work, detailed questions for each reading, and topics for writing. Selections range from professional essays to annotated student essays, short stories, poems, a cartoon, four–color fine art, advertisements, and photographs.Individuals interested in brief readings that model rhetorical structures.

Edition details

• Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205314813
• ISBN 13: 9780205314812
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 495