The Simon and Schuster Guide to Writing

by Jeanette Harris

Book Overview

This book is pretty straightforward. Part one provides you with an overview of the reasons why purpose and the audience are important concepts for readers and writers to know. Part two explores... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0134565754
• ISBN13: 9780134565750
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 773 Pages
• Weight: 2.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great learning tool

From the dust jacket: Open this book and discover a clear, new light on the reading and writing connection. This illuminating text features thematically grouped readings by both students and experienced writers, as well as the humane discourse of its teacher-theoretician authors, to help students understand and successfully accomplish the purposes and processes of reading and writing. The book is divided into four parts: ? Concepts-This section introduces purpose, audience, and the reading and writing processes. It includes a student's writing in progressive drafts to illustrate the process of creating a written text. ? Purposes-Each chapter includes readings and assignments for a common purpose and on a common theme, presenting reading and writing as closely related, meaning-constructing processes. ? Strategies-Because a given rehetorical term or strategy applies to a variety of purposes, an alphabetically arranged reference section defines and illustrates the terms, concepts, and strategies effective readers and writers need to know and use. ? Handbook-A concluding section offers guidelines for diction, usage, punctuation, and mechanics. Great thought has been put into the book's instruction in the assignments such that the students MUST read.