Purpose and Process: A Reader for Writers
Language: English
Published by Prentice Hall College Div, 1996
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- Title
- Purpose and Process: A Reader for Writers
- Author
- Stephen Reid
- Publisher
- Prentice Hall College Div
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Fair
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0132373890
- ISBN 13
- 9780132373890
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Item weight
- 1.32 pounds
Encouraging writers to take control of their reading and writing, Purpose and Process, Fourth Edition:
Features introductory chapters on reading and writing that introduce students to critical reading and to the various purposes and processes for writing. Focuses on basic stages or dimensions, including collecting, shaping, drafting, and revising, and illustrates the individual processes of nine student writers. Organizes coverage by writing purposes, requiring students to observe, remember, investigate, explain, evaluate, solve a problem, or argue a subject for a specific audience in a defined context. Provides a full range of essays 20 new to this edition that feature mainstream and minority authors, multicultural perspectives, and a variety of topics, writing levels, and styles.In addition, a sequenced set of questions about each essay reinforces the reading/writing goals: Questions on Meaning, Questions on Purpose and Strategy, Questions on Audience and Language, and Questions for Discussion and Writing.
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