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.