Designing Interactive Worlds With Words: Principles of Writing As Representational Composition

by David S. Kaufer and Brian S. Butler

Book Overview

No two writing situations are exactly the same and skilled writers, like skilled painters, must develop the know-how to represent the objects of their writing as part of a flexible art. This special art of writing lies hidden between grammar--the well-formedness of sentences--and genre--the capacity of texts to perform culturally holistic communicative functions (e.g., the memo, the strategic report, the letter to the editor). Concealed between grammar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805834249
• ISBN13: 9780805834246
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"