Writing with a thesis : a rhetoric and reader /

Skwire, Sarah E.

Writing with a thesis : a rhetoric and reader / Sarah E. Skwire and David Skwire - Twelfth Edition - Boston, Massachusetts : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, c2014 - xxvi, 339 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter1. The persuasive principle -- Chapter2. Narration -- Chapter3. Description -- Chapter4. Examples -- Chapter5. Process -- Chapter6. Comparison and contrast -- Chapter7. Cause and effect -- Chapter8. Division and classification -- Chapter9. Definition -- Chapter10. Argumentation .

This book offers you one central piece of advice: Whenever possible, think of your writing as a form of persuasion. Apart from many expected changes, this edition includes four new sample student essays, and eighteen new professional reading selections.

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE -- RHETORIC

PE 1417 .S59 2014