Purpose and Process: A Reader for Writers

by Stephen P. Reid, Henry E. Jacobs, Madeleine Sorapure, et al.

Book Overview

This innovative reader focuses on writers' purposes and processes for reading and writing, and on the connections "between," reading and writing. Every chapter integrates purpose, process, and rhetorical strategies for achieving specific writing goals. Sixty-four selections by both professional and student writers illustrate these purposes. The readings address reading and writing purposes and processes, observing, remembering, investigating, explaining,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0137426283
• ISBN13: 9780137426287
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 570 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Basic book with very important material

This book has all the fundamentals required to become a good writer. If you're struggling to get going, I'd recommend you get this book. It is not advanced, but then again, writing is the application of a few basic principles. This book provides those basic principles in a series of essays.