Present Tense: Contemporary Themes for Writers - Softcover

Bauknight, Lee; Rollins, Brooke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 141303067X ISBN 13: 9781413030679

Publisher: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2009

Synopsis

PRESENT TENSE includes both a rhetorical apparatus that clearly explains analysis and argumentation and an up-to-date reader that includes compelling, funny, and current readings that offer a range of perspectives on important public issues. With its easy-to-follow introduction to basic elements of rhetorical theory and issues-oriented readings, PRESENT TENSE gives readers the strategies they need for figuring out what they want to write and the best way to write it.

About this title

About the Author:

Lee Bauknight is an instructor at Louisiana State University, where he teaches courses primarily in the University Writing Program. Lee completed his MFA in fiction at the University of South Carolina in 2002 and was associate director of the First-Year English Program there for five years and director of the Writing Center for one. As associate director, Lee helped redesign the first-year English curriculum with a focus on analysis and argumentation and helped train, mentor, and evaluate instructors and graduate teaching assistants. He also designed and edited five editions of THE CAROLINA READER, one of the textbooks used in the FYE Program. Before pursuing his MFA, he worked for more than a decade as an editor at newspapers in South Carolina and Georgia.

Brooke Rollins, an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and a member of the graduate faculty at Louisiana State University, teaches courses in rhetoric, composition studies, writing, and critical theory. She received her Ph.D. in English, with a focus on rhetoric and composition studies, at the University of South Carolina in 2007. While at South Carolina, she served as an Assistant Director of the First-Year English Program and taught courses in composition, advanced composition, business writing, and rhetoric. Her work has appeared in COLLEGE ENGLISH, RHETORICA SOCIETY QUARTERLY, and THE VELVET LIGHT TRAP. She is currently working on a book called GHOSTWRITING ETHOS: BEYOND CHARACCTER AND CHARACTER BEYOND, which explores the classical rhetorical concept of ethos in Plato, Aristotle, Lysias, and Isocrates.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 141303067X
• ISBN 13: 9781413030679
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408