Patterns of Exposition
by Schwegler, Robert A.Edition: 17th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-01-01
Publisher(s): Longman
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Summary
Offers coverage of the rhetorical modes, aptly illustrated by high quality, contemporary readings. The engaging selections in this book encourage readers to take a stand on questions of culture, identity, and value in college communities, in the workplace, and in society. Thorough introductions to each rhetorical pattern, numerous exercises, and sample student essays throughout the book emphasize practical concrete writing strategies. A thematic table of contents and table of "Essay Pairs"--which groups essays particularly well suited for study and discussion--make this book appropriate for all users. Individuals interested in developing their writing skills.
Table of Contents
| Mark sections new to this edition | |
| Reading as a Writer Brent Staples, Just Walk on By | |
| Ways of Writing | |
| Example Andy Rooney, In and Of Ourselves We Trust | |
| Full Moon Friday the Thirteenth | |
| When Its All Too Much | |
| Dysfunctional Nation | |
| Issues and Ideas: Identities | |
| Underground Dads | |
| Cartilage | |
| Iron Bonding | |
| Classification Judith Stone, Personal Beast | |
| Dont Even Think About It! | |
| Remembering the Dead | |
| Issues and Ideas: Images of Sound and Sight | |
| Cinema of the In-Crowd Brenda Peterson, Life Is a Musical | |
| Comparison Twain, Two Ways of Seeing a River | |
| A Study of Contrasts Lopate, A Smoker with a Nonsmoker Walker, Am I Blue? | |
| Issues and Ideas: Gender Differences | |
| The Men We Carry in Our Minds | |
| Method and Madness: How Men and Women Think | |
| Meet Todays Dad | |
| Analogy | |
| Like Robinson Crusoe | |
| Built by Fire | |
| Issues and Ideas: Humans and Animals | |
| O Rotten Gotham Sliding Down into the Behavioral Sink | |
| High Tide in Tucson | |
| Process Buhler and Graham, Give Juggling a Hand | |
| Deranged Marriage | |
| Working with Dreams | |
| Going Places | |
| Issues and Ideas: Advertising and Appearances | |
| We Build Excitement | |
| Beauty . . . And the Beast of Advertising | |
| To Dispel Fears of Live Burial | |
| Cause-Effect | |
| Whats Your Best Time of Day | |
| Hello Darkness Roach, My Father the Geezer | |
| Issues and Ideas: Consuming | |
| Kids in the Mall: Growing Up Controlled | |
| Branded Babies: From Cradle to Consumer | |
| Definition | |
| Gypsies Berendt, The Hoax | |
| Pride | |
| Pilgrim | |
| Issues and Ideas: Defining Values and Roles | |
| The Insufficiency of Honesty | |
| Courage | |
| Mothers Day | |
| Role Reversal | |
| Description | |
| The Jacket | |
| The War Room at Bellevue | |
| Heaven on a Hummingbirds Wing | |
| Issues and Ideas: Place and Person | |
| Once More to the Lake | |
| Narration | |
| 38 Who Saw Murder Didnt Call the Police Canada, Pain | |
| Issues and Ideas | |
| Making the Grade | |
| Issues and Ideas: Stories and Values | |
| A Hanging | |
| Arms and the Man | |
| Uncle Chul Gets Rich | |
| Induction and Deduction Friday, The Age of Beauty | |
| Violent Pride | |
| Issues and Ideas: Digital Realities | |
| A Virtual Life | |
| Superhero Sushi | |
| Argument Daly, How the Lawyers Stole Winter | |
| The Ballad of Yogurt | |
| Could You Live with Less? | |
| The Drug That Pretends It Isnt Lawrence, F" | |
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