The Prentice-Hall reader /
compiled by George Miller
- Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, c1986
- xviii, 556 pages ; 17 cm.
1. Examples -- 2. Narration -- 3. Description -- 4. Division and classification -- 5. Comparison and contrast -- 6. Process -- 7. Cause and effect -- 8. Definition -- 9. Argumentation and persuasion -- 10. Revision.
This text is predicted on two premises: that reading plays a vital role in learning how to write and that writing and reading can best be organized around the traditional division of discourse into sour modes- narration, description, exposition, and argumentation.