Connections: A Combined Reader and Rhetoric

Donald Jones; Kerry Beckford

ISBN 10: 152493674X ISBN 13: 9781524936747

Publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2017

Connections: A Combined Reader and Rhetoric? offers thematic and instructional content in one easy-to-use source. The five instructional chapters present proven practices and fundamental concepts while the five thematic chapters immerse students in multiple perspectives, historical contexts, and contemporary debates. The integrated instructional and thematic chapters of Connections will teach students to excel in their writing courses and across the curriculum.

Connections: A Combined Reader and Rhetoric?:

Integrates sample essays and drafts by students throughout and a new thematic chapter on Race and Identity.
Features a greater emphasis on application/transfer and source synthesis.
Offers detailed instruction on reading, writing, research, and more.
Integrates the thematic and instructional content through cross-references.
Includes a code for e-access to supplemental readings and videos.

Connections is remarkable for doing justice to the two major schools of thought that have dominated the field of rhetoric and composition: expressivism and social constructionism. The field has suffered from the pervasive sense that these two approaches to writing are at war with each other, but Connections demonstrates that these two theories can be complementary in practice.
Peter Elbow, University of Massachusetts (emeriti)

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