Patterns of Reflection: A Reader (6th Edition) - Softcover

Seyler, Dorothy U.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321355636 ISBN 13: 9780321355638

Publisher: Longman, 2006

Synopsis

Featuring seventy-two brief selections, this accessible compilation features a dual organization with readings that illustrate a specific rhetorical pattern while exploring the chapter’s theme. Selections range from professional essays to annotated student essays, short stories, and poems.  The text also includes full-color fine art as well as advertisements and photographs.

 

Helps readers to write better.  Writing process instruction, thematic reading selections. 

Anyone who would like to write better.

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
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321355636
• ISBN 13: 9780321355638
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 512