Variables of Composition: Process and Product in a Business Setting (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric) - Softcover

Broadhead PhD, Associate Professor Glenn J; Freed PhD, Professor Richard J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080931262X ISBN 13: 9780809312627

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986

Synopsis

Writing is written within and for dis­course communities, whose values, tra­ditions, and beliefs condition the writer’s own values and influence both the pro­cess of composition and the products is­suing from that process.

To understand how writers compose and revise within the business and industry community Broadhead and Freed examine the revision practices of proposal writers in a management-consulting firm. They describe the writ­ers’ motives and intentions in changing a text. This study provides a firmly based theory of composing and revising that will enable business writers to achieve a balanced perspective by focusing on the ends as well as the means of compos­ing—that is, by focusing on the interplay of product and process.

About this title

About the Author

Glenn J. Broadhead and Richard C. Freed are in the English Department at Iowa State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080931262X
• ISBN 13: 9780809312627
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184