Beyond Outlining: New Approaches to Rhetorical Form

by Betty Cain

This book is a unique, long-needed comprehensive study of whole-discourse form going beyond traditional prescriptions. Ancient and contemporary innovations are combined with a new theory and practical application. The author rescues the organization of persuasive/explanatory prose from long neglect and unimaginative traditional formulas. She demonstrates a new theory of form fluency in analyses of student texts and applies it in new 'form heuristics'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819184152
• ISBN13: 9780819184153
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 218 Pages