This rhetoric and reader explores variations in the writing process by focusing on 3 key types of essays: the exploratory, the analytical, and the argumentative. It identifies general principles of what constitutes good writing and thinking by examining essays by both students and professionals and through numerous reading and writing exercises and writing sequences. Special emphasis is also given to evidence: how to incorporate it, how to document it, and how to explore and argue using evidence. Additional essays are available at the end of the book.

Reading and Writing Essays: The Imaginative Task

Literature & Fiction

Hoy, Pat C., II

Essays & Correspondence

Mcgraw-Hill College

This groundbreaking essay anthology for freshman writing courses offers a full range of essays, from informal, familiar essays that explore ideas, to more direct, argumentative essays, where meaning is more explicit. The best essays, the authors maintain, usually defy easy classification and manage to give us a sense of the writer's thinking even as they make their claims and try to persuade us. The essays teach students about the possibilities in writing, and the choices open to them as writers. Encounters also includes reproductions of well-known paintings, which stimulate thought, evoke feeling, and serve as springboards for writing.

Encounters: Readings and the World

DiYanni,Robert

History & Criticism

Prose Pieces: Essays and Stories : Sixteen Modern Writers

This fascinating anthology of nonfiction writing by women is suitable not only for freshman composition courses but in women's studies programs and in advanced writing courses as well. The text is divided into two sections: the first contains from three to four pieces by fifteen major women writers; the second, thirty-four classic essays from the feminist tradition.

Women's Voices: Visions and Perspectives

Schor, Esther H.

Intended for those wishing to improve their writing and communication skills, this work includes chapters on language bias, connotative meaning, paragraph writing and research. It focuses on developing three kinds of writing: explorative, analytical and argumentative.

Scribner Handbook for Writers

Reference

PRENTICE/HALL

The essays in Instinct for Survival explore fundamental ideas about the ties of community, the trials and tribulations of family life, the sacrif cial nature of public service, the yearnings of the spirit, and the tangled joys of teaching. From his childhood in Arkansas to his career as both Army off cer and professor of literature, Pat Hoy uses his rich experiences as departure points in his quest for meaning.
In "Mosaics of Southern Masculinity," Hoy recalls his absent father and develops a multilayered inquiry into male identity that includes memories of his own sons and ref ections on the ways other southern writers have grappled with father-son relationships. "The Spirit Was Willing and So Was the Flesh" stems from Hoy's attempts to come to terms with the feminine aspects of his own personality and with the apparent dichotomy between the spiritual and the physical. Hoy toys with his own personal poetics and philosophy of writing in "Conversing with Images," where he articulates the unspoken power of images. A fascination with life's mysteries informs these essays, which together create a transcendent and marvelous mosaic of life.

Instinct for Survival: Essays

History

Americas

Univ of Georgia Pr

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